How to Make Learning Purposeful – Preparing Our Learners for Tomorrow
Welcome to this course on making learning purposeful. Throughout the course, we will delve into the importance of instilling purpose in every aspect of education. You will discover how purposeful learning empowers students, promotes their active engagement, and nurtures a deeper understanding of the subject matter. By providing students with a sense of direction and meaning, purposeful education enhances their motivation, critical thinking skills, and ability to apply knowledge to real-life situations.
We will guide you through practical techniques to incorporate purpose into your lessons, ensuring students can see the relevance of their education to their lives. You will learn about various approaches to purposeful learning, including classroom-based, community-based, and global activities, allowing students to positively impact their immediate surroundings and the wider world.
As you progress, you will gain insights into the role of a facilitator in a purposeful education setting, where students take ownership of their learning journey. We will explore the significance of process-driven teaching, encouraging experimentation, and providing students with freedom within limits. Embracing purposeful education will unlock your students’ potential, foster their creativity, and cultivate a lifelong love for learning.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped with practical tools, resources, and a deep understanding of purposeful education principles. You will be ready to create an inspiring classroom environment, where your students thrive academically, develop essential skills, and become active contributors to a better future. Get ready to embark on an exciting educational transformation and make a lasting impact on the lives of your students!
The Topics We Will Cover
- The importance of making learning purposeful.
- The benefits of purposeful learning for students.
- Three ways to approach purposeful learning: Classroom-Based, Community-Based, and Global.
- The significance of including purpose in every lesson.
- How purposeful learning affects the mindset of children.
- Purposeful learning activities and their categorization (classroom-based, community-based, global).
- The role of teachers in facilitating purposeful learning.
- The concept of process-driven teaching versus product-driven teaching.
- The importance of the prepared environment in education.
- Strategies for incorporating purposeful learning into classroom planning and practice.
Meet our Instructors
Gavin McCormack
Meet Gavin McCormack. He has been a teacher/school principal for over 25 years. He is the co-founder of Upschool.co and the Montessori Australia Ambassador, with a passion for inclusive and child-focused pedagogies. He has worked in several countries around the world, Is a children's author, and philanthropist and has trained thousands of teacher around the world.
Mark Williams
Meet Mark Williams. He is an internationally recognised professor of cognitive neuroscience, with over 25 years of experience conducting behavioural and brain imaging research focusing on our social skills. He has taught the fundamentals of neuroscience to a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as publishing more than 70 scientific articles. Mark has been awarded numerous high-profile fellowships and grants, and worked both at MIT in the USA and at universities in Australia.