Embed STREAMS Across the K-12 Curricula: Learning Redesign for Supporting the Whole Child.

Home Events – Digipro Education Limited Education Vital Importance Embed STREAMS Across the K-12 Curricula: Learning Redesign for Supporting the Whole Child.

Instructors

  • Kyriakos Christodoulou
    Kyriakos Christodoulou Head of R&D and Innovation
    Kyriakos Christodoulou
    Kyriakos Christodoulou
    Head of R&D and Innovation

    Kyriakos Christodoulou is the Research and Development Innovation Director at Digipro Education Limited, a leading provider of innovative pedagogical solutions in the EdTech industry. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of computer science, specializing in ethical pedagogy, while also holding the position of Director of R&D and Innovation of a global computer science curriculum at FUNecole Education Limited.

    He previously worked as a Computer Science Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Duy Tan. Under Kyriakos’ leadership as a Robotics instructor, his students received 1st prize in primary age ROBOTEX contest. Kyriakos holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, and an MSc in Technology Innovation Management from SPRU, University of Sussex.

    As a co-founder of a non-profit organisation the ‘ECO Social Movement’, he is committed to support and organise social and ecological volunteering projects. In his spare time Kyriakos enjoys playing the piano and rock-climbing excursions.

  • Nina Jackson
    Nina Jackson Independent Thinker, Author, Associate Director ITLWorldwide Mental Health Ambassador & creator of Mind Medicine approach
    Nina Jackson
    Nina Jackson
    Independent Thinker, Author, Associate Director ITLWorldwide Mental Health Ambassador & creator of Mind Medicine approach

    Nina Jackson is the director of Teach Learn Create that offers teacher professional development courses in UK and the world. The courses focus to develop teachers to purposeful and effectively use technology and particularly mobile devices in the classroom.

    Nina is a new generation of innovative teachers and the the first woman to join Independent Thinking Ltd with Ian Gilbert in 1999. Nina inspires and motivates teachers to “be the best that they can be” and uses the Independent Thinking’s motto of ‘Do things no one does or do things everyone does in a way no one does’, as her philosophy for educational change. With this heritage of superb teaching and learning, an associate director of the internationally acclaimed Independent Thinking and best-selling author;Nina Jackson is an educational force to be reckoned with.

    Nina has been a lead contributor in a BBC documentary called Kids Behaving Badly where her skills for engaging and inspiring disaffected learners were hailed as “pure magic”.

Organizer

Digipro Education Limited
Digipro Education Limited
Phone
+357 26955000
Email
info@digipro.com.cy
QR Code

Date

Νοέ 13 – 16 2023
Expired!

Cost

Fully Subsidized

Location

Online Learning

 

This expert professional development seminar provides school leaders and curriculum coordinators with the latest technology enhanced pedagogical approaches to successfully embed STREAMS processes across the K-12 curricula. Seminar attendees will have the opportunity to get hands-on with state-of-the-art technology recourses, apps (EdTech) and robust pedagogical instruction that promotes and supports effective cross curricular activities that integrate Science, Technology, Reading/ Writing, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Social Sciences into the curriculum. Innovation should create value. The undeniable value of this highly innovative seminar is to establish interdepartmental teacher collaboration and departmental alignments, so every teacher in the school will abandon the teaching in silos pedagogical approach and be working towards the seamless integration of the STREAMS processes as a school-wide strategy and approach.

 

This seminar will offer valuable insight to owners principals/managers, educational curriculum consultants and master trainers of private K-12 schools and institutes. Precedence will be given to those institutions that are approved by HRDA and or the Ministry of Education and Culture.

 

The objectives of the seminar are:

• Develop Science, Reading/Writing Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics and Social Sciences transdisciplinary learning experiences.
• Acknowledge the benefits and the importance of STREAMS education for schools, teachers and students.
• Prepare teachers to abandon single discipline and teaching in silos learning and develop transdisciplinary and agile cross curricula learning plans and learning experiences.
• Align Cypriot curricular standards with the STREAMS integrated lessons and assessments.
• Establish interdepartmental teacher collaboration and departmental alignments.
• Organize the STREAMS processes as a school-wide strategy and approach.
• Include cross-curricular subject matter in a way that’s meaningful to students.
• Develop problem-solving skills, encouraging creativity and collaboration, and preparing students for the future workforce.
• Empower students to cooperate and create meaningful learning experiences
• Use state of the art technologies to support lifelong and student-driven learning.
• Acknowledge the critical characteristics in learning content and experiences to define high-quality learning.
• Recognize that education systems need to be developed and continuously developing.

The event is finished.

Hourly Schedule

Day 1

07:30 – 09:30
The New Global Educational Framework
• Presentation of the necessary shifts and changes in the learning content, methodologies and experiences in K-12 education.
09:30 – 09:45
Coffee Break
09:45 – 12:15
The STREAMS Multidisciplinary Process Approach.
• Teaching in in single disciplines (silos).<br/> • Disrupting the Single disciplines approach.<br/> • Teaching beyond single disciplines.<br/> • The Integration of the STREAMS process.

Day 2

7:30 – 09:00
Show case the methodology of how to Integrate Existing Pedagogical Models with STREAMS.
• The Understand by Design pedagogical model enhanced with STREAMS and Technology.<br/> • The Differentiated Pedagogical Model enhanced with STREAMS and Technology.
09:00 – 09:30
STEM vs. STEAM Vs. STREAMS
• What Initiatives are not STREAMS?<br/> • Fostering for Autonomous and Collaborative Learning Environments.<br/> • Case Study: Develop Autonomy and Collaboration in the Classroom.
09:30 – 09:45
Coffee Break
09:45 – 11:45
The 360 degrees STREAMS Approach.
• Connecting lesson design, implementation, assessments, analytics with Standards and Alignments.<br/> • A true STREAMS experience.
11:45 – 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00
Class Project
After finishing the Class Project participants will be guided to create their own eLearning presentations on the subject using the Pear deck eLearning Authoring tools.

Day 3

07:30 – 09:30
Recapitulation of the previous day
• Connect and Align the STREAMS Processes with the Cypriot Educational Standards?<br/> • Adjust school programing and scheduling to accommodate a new way of teaching and learning.
09:30 – 09:45
Coffee Break
09:45 – 10:15
Case study: Best Practices for Connecting STREAMS with Special Education
• Special Education students oftentimes go to intervention classes in place of arts classes (technology, art, music, etc).
10:15 – 11:45
Deploying the STREAMS Lessons
• Encourage student communication of their ideas or questions to a partner student.<br/> • Provide students with the freedom to produce their own solutions.
11:45 – 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:15
Group Presentations
• Present group projects that contain learning experiences beyond expectations driven by authentic passion and need.<br/> • Seminar Closure