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Workshops |
Educational Resource Development Centre (ERDC) has trained thousands of teachers all over the country. ERDC offers both short term and long term training programs for in-service and pre-service teachers.
Below are the details of our short workshops :
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| Workshops - Teaching & Learning |
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How
to Talk so Kids can Learn  |
| Duration : 9 hours / 3 days |
| Highlights : How to deal with feeling that interfere with learning. Seven skills that invite kids to cooperate. Leading toward self-discipline. Six steps that engage children’s creativity and commitment. Praise that doesn’t demean, criticism that doesn’t wound. How to free a child who is locked in a role. The parent-teacher partnership. |
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| Homework Without Tears |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Different kinds of homeworks. Effective and ineffective homeworks. Why children reject homework. Homework timetable and policy. Do’s and dont’s self assessment checklist. Teachers’ homework. Checking and feedback. Tips for parents. |
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| The Time Of My Classroom Life |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Definitions of time. Concept of optimizing time. Four levels of instructional time. Analyzing the teachers’ time. Analyzing the learners’ time. Time thieves. The urgency addiction. Strategies for cost effective use of instructional time. |
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| Beginning Teaching as a Profession |
| Duration : 21 hours / 7 days |
| Highlights : Is teaching a profession, Aims and challenges of teaching, attitudes about teachers and teaching, the inner landscape of a teacher, teacher’s aptitude test, being a good learner. |
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| Classroom Organization and Management |
| Duration : 21 hours / 7 days |
| Highlights : Definition of classroom management, analyzing the challenges, causes of discipline problems, indicators of a disciplined class, old fashioned discipline, 12 variables of an alive classroom, attributes of an effective teacher, the basis for off task behaviour, dealing with difficult students. |
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| Making Books to Encourage Literacy |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Idea of book development at school level, kinds of teacher made books, kinds of children made books, tips for writing, tips for illustrations, tips for layout and presentation. |
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| Motivating Unmotivated Learners |
| Duration : 9 hours / 3 days |
| Highlights : What is motivation? Student motivation: the teacher’s perspective, supporting students’ confidence, rebuilding discouraged students’ confidence and willingness to learn, learning styles differences. |
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| Understanding Education |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Higher aims of education, major educational philosophies, value of philosophy of education, role of education in shaping a society, school organization and curriculum. |
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| How Children Learn |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : The instinct to learn, stages of childhood development, age level characteristics, different learning styles, opportunities for interaction, factors that inhibit learning, factors that enhance learning. |
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| Developing Instructional Skills |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Group discussions, presentation, cooperative learning, direct instructions, purpose and characteristics of instructional alternatives. |
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| Preparing and Planning for Teaching |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Benefits of instructional planning, deciding what to teach, instructional objectives, kinds of learning outcomes, evaluating students learning, discussion on issues and problems. |
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| Is My Classroom Alive? |
| Duration : 9 hours / 3 days |
| Highlights : This course urges teachers to look inside their selves and realize what’s there as real teaching comes from deep inside the teacher’s self. This course invites teachers to ponder on the reasons of what happens and what does not happen in their classrooms. |
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| Essentials of Multigrade Teaching |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Concept of multigrade teaching, characteristics of an effective multigrade school, qualities of a good multigrade teacher, basic modes of multigrade classroom, learning methods, teaching strategies, challenges and solutions. |
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| Assessment – System & Process |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Objectives of students’ assessment, kinds of assessment, identifying and enhancing student understanding, formats for teacher-made test, testing for intelligence, performance tasks, qualities of a good test paper. |
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| Workshops - Early Childhood Education |
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| What Children Need to Start |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : How children learn better? Modern trends in early childhood education. Why children fail. A comparison between conventional and modern beliefs. The integrated approach. Enhancing creativity. Designing and conducting activities. Indicators of a good pre-primary class. Issues of the curriculum. |
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| Enhancing Creativity Through Craft |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Defining creativity and craft. Teacher’s role in enhancing creativity. Barrier to creativity. Different kinds of craft activities. Craft across the curriculum. Useful resources. Do’s and dont’s. project work. Exhibitions. Presentations and feedback. |
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| Play in Preschool |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : What is play and why is it important? Characteristics of play, educational role of play, social, emotional and language development through play. |
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| Telling Stories & Rhymes |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Discovering the art of teaching through stories and rhymes. Using stories and rhymes as a tool for teaching languages, art, values, social skills and positive behavior. |
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| Early Childhood Education |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Redefining early childhood education, stages of childhood, age level characteristics, multiple intelligences, the early childhood curriculum, role of the teacher, how children learn and fail, guideline for observations, project for pre-school teacher. |
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| Workshops - English Language |
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| Teaching of English Language |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : The workshop focuses on principles of English Language Teaching, areas of ELT and their attainment targets. It also shares activities on four areas of language. Tips for preparing language activities are also part of the workshop. Suggestions for vocabulary development and dictations with tips on grammar teaching are shared with participants. Guidelines for assessment are also part of the workshop. |
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| Teaching
Children to Write |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Defining writing. Differences between product and process writing. Developing the writing program. Characteristics of a classroom that promotes and supports writing. Classification of the kinds of writing. Assessment of writing. Writing across the curriculum. |
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| Teaching
Children to Read |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Defining reading. The role of reading in literacy development. Preparing for the teaching of reading. Is your classroom ready for reading? Activities and strategies to construct meaning? Kinds of reading. Vocabulary development. Reading across the curriculum. |
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| English Skills Development Course (Basic) |
| Duration : 9 hours / 3 days |
| Highlights : Focuses on the development of basic language skills of the learners (beginner level). Gives them exposure, lots of opportunities and confidence to learn the language as personal development. |
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| English Skills Development Course (Extended) |
| Duration : 40 hours / 10 days |
| Highlights : Further enhances the language skills. Language learning within the context, interactive activities integrating the basic skills, self help strategies, assignments, suggested resources. |
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| 25 Communicative Activities |
| Duration : 3 hours / 1 day |
| Highlights : Language learning and communication. The teacher’s role in communication. Oral communication activities. Written communication activities. Assessment and evaluation. |
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| How Children Learn Language |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Why study language, components of language, process of language learning, children talking, vocabulary and concept development. |
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| Teaching English Through Phonics |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Oracy and its importance, introduction of phonics, role of phonics in teaching reading, curriculum of phonics. |
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| Workshops - Urdu Language |
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| Teaching of Urdu Language |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Principles of urdu language teaching, areas of ULT and their attainment targets, model of teaching, activities for reading, and writing, suggestions for vocabulary development and dictations, improving handwriting, methods of teaching poetry, guidelines of assessment, project for UL teachers. |
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| Zakheera-e-Alfaz Kaisay Barhaein |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : Role of vocabulary in language development, Vocabulary types, teaching strategies for vocabulary development, activities and strategies to construct meaning. |
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| Usool-e-Imla |
| Duration : 6 hours / 2 days |
| Highlights : What is dictation for? It is not an exercise for correcting and pointing student’s mistakes but it is more than that. Problems of dictation, suggestions for improving dictation through attention grabbing activities. |
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| Teaching Urdu Through Phonics |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Oracy and its importance, introduction of phonics, role of phonics in teaching reading. |
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| Shaeerey Kaisay Parhaein? |
| Duration : 3 hours / 1 day |
| Highlights : Reasons and principles for teaching poetry, role of poetry in enhancing the aesthetic sense, imagination and positive emotional attitudes of the learners, interesting activities and projects on poetry. |
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| Urdu Tadrees Main Jiddat |
| Duration : 9 hours / 3 days |
| Highlights : Correct situation and attitude towards Urdu language, teaching first & second language, understanding functions of the mind, modern teaching strategies and model activities based on the four skills. |
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| Workshops - Teaching of Maths |
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| Teaching of Maths |
| Duration : 15 hours / 5 days |
| Highlights : Aims and objectives, concept teaching through activities, hierarchy of concepts, daily life application, relationship between different mathematical concepts, sequence of abstraction, problem solving through math. |
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| Teaching of Maths in Pre-Primary Classes |
| Duration : 9 hours / 3 days | | | | | |
