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Active Teaching and Learning Manual
The Active Teaching and Learning booklet presents the principles and practices of learner centered pedagogy as a teaching approach to achieve quality education. It is accompanied by cards on methods, techniques and tools, which provide teachers with examples and tips for classroom implementation. The booklet was developed by the Teacher Instructor Education Training department of the Ministry of Education, Science Technology and Sports of Uganda, with support from the Belgian Development Agency, in the framework of the Teacher Training and Education project.
How to use ICT tools in teaching and learning
This booklet presents a selection of ICT tools to integrate into teacher training in Uganda. Every tool is accompanied with creative ideas and suggestions on how to engage learners and enrich lessons.
Technology enhanced learning
This course is an introduction to technology enhanced teaching and learning.
General teaching methods
This course aims to get the best out of the teaching practices from pre-service teachers, in-service teachers and anyone who is eager to contribute to quality education. It has been written by the Teacher Training Education Project, implemented by Enabel and the Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda.
Teaching to prevent atrocity crimes: a guide for teachers in Africa
This is UNESCO's first resource with a regional focus on teaching to prevent atrocity crimes. It was developed with the United Nations and in partnership with the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA). The guide was informed by exchanges with African stakeholders and advisors and tested through a piloting exercise with African teachers and students. It provides principles for teachers to consider in facilitating learning and constructive discussions with their students.
Gender-responsive pedagogy in early childhood education. A toolkit for teachers and school leaders
The toolkit offers an introduction to gender-responsive pedagogy in early childhood education and serves as a practical guide that can be adapted to any context and the related needs. It provides teachers at early education practical tips to ensure they are able to offer children a learning environment that is free of prejudice and stereotypes. It is a source of ideas that individual teachers and school leaders can put to immediate use in their classrooms and schools. The toolkit was pre-trialled in three countries: Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia, and it can be contextualised for implementation in different African countries.
Chemistry teaching module (TPACK based)
This instructional module is designed to demonstrate the integration of instructional technology in teaching chemistry. Each unit of the module aims to show the ease of learning chemical concepts by integrating technology in the teaching process.
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History teaching module (TPACK based)
The use of TPACK in the teaching of history is a commitment to facilitating a better understanding of the subject. The goal is to provide history teachers at the Junior Secondary School level with technology-driven multimedia teaching/learning resources and ideas for their classrooms. It is also a useful tool to get students excited about history. The innovation will combine technology with teaching, and curriculum content. It is a great blend of principle and practice.
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Mathematics teaching module (TPACK based)
These modules are sample lessons to enable you as a teacher, plan, implement and assess ICT-based mathematics lessons.
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Instructional design for teachers (TPACK based)
Instructional design is the creation of learning experiences and materials in a manner that results in the acquisition and application of knowledge and skills. The discipline follows a system of assessing needs, designing a process, developing materials and evaluating their effectiveness.
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Geography teaching module (TPACK based)
This is a resource material for African Geography teacher training institutions. The module aims at providing ideas, activities and resources to facilitate effective teaching and learning of Geography.
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Physics teaching module (TPACK based)
This module structure is developed with distance learning in mind and emphasizes use of technology in teaching and learning concepts in physics. Each unit seeks to enhance a particular competency or approach through the concepts discussed under that particular unit. It is envisaged that as the trainees complete a particular unit they will not only be proficient in the physics subject content but also in the competency or approach being targeted.
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English teaching module (TPACK based)
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) is a new teaching framework that integrates technology, pedagogy and content knowledge. This framework ensures that technology, pedagogy and content are seamlessly integrated in a teaching and learning context. TPCK as a teaching approach ensures that teachers and their learners acquire and apply technological skills relevant to specific contexts. The module demonstrates how teachers can use their technological and pedagogical knowledge to present content and to assign learning and assessment activities to teach different aspects of a subject.
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Biology teaching module (TPACK based)
The course will provide teachers with a variety of pedagogical skills beyond content transmission to include development of focused skills and competences while teaching biology.
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Transformative pedagogy: a teachers’ guide for peace and resilience building in North Africa
This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for peace-building. It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy. It also provides practical tools to support learners’ active participation in shaping the world around them and assess learners’ understanding of peacebuilding concepts and skills, all while engaging the community.
Youth empowerment for peace and resilience building and prevention of violent extremism in Sahel and surrounding countries: a guide for teachers
This guide is designed to build the capacity of secondary school teachers and teacher educators to integrate a peace and resilience building approach in education for the prevention of violent extremism. It builds on the Transformative Pedagogy for Peace-building guide and it was contextualized to the context the Sahel and surrounding countries.
The guide redefines the role of teachers, inviting them to make a paradigm shift in adopting a transformative pedagogy that allows learners to actively participate in their own learning. Transformative pedagogy builds on active pedagogy and the competencies-based approach. The guide concludes with engaging learning activities to support experiential learning.
Transformative pedagogy for peace-building
This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for peace-building. It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy and provides practical tools to assess learners’ understanding of peacebuilding concepts and skills. It concludes with 20 engaging activities to support experiential learning.
The guide was developed as part of the "Teacher Training and Development for Peace-building in the Horn of Africa and Surrounding Countries project", which has as a long-term goal to develop a critical mass of teachers able to implement effective teaching and learning essential for preparing peace-loving and productive youth in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda.
Transformative pedagogy for learning to live together in Southern Africa. A practical guide
This guide is designed to build the capacity of teachers and education planners so that they are informed and empowered in why and how to educate for living together and epace building . It offers an analysis of conflict, examines the role of ethics, expands on the elements of transformative pedagogy and provides practical tools to promote learners’ active participation in shaping the world around them and assess their understanding of citizenship and peacebuilding concepts.
Transformative pedagogy empowers both teachers and learners. It encourages learners to be reflective and critical thinkers capable of contributing meaningfully as members of local and global communities. It also redefines the role of teachers. Teachers become facilitators with the disposition, knowledge, skills and commitment to support students in developing their full potential as peacebuilders. This guide can serve in universities, teacher training colleges and schools.