Teaching Foundations: Understanding Learners and Learning

This module explores how teachers and parents understand children's lives and learning, examining identity formation, gender differences, and multicultural classroom dynamics.

This module focuses on children's learning processes, examining self-confidence, agency, differentiated learning, and classroom management through rules and roles.

This module examines classroom interactions, focusing on language use, questioning techniques, reward systems, and collaborative learning through pair and group work.

This module explores peer group dynamics, addressing issues like substance abuse, bullying, and student labeling, while examining their impact on classroom teaching and learning.

This module examines how learning extends beyond the classroom, focusing on home learning, homework, educational transitions, and the use of learning indicators.

This module introduces influential educational thinkers (Obanya, Perkins, Maslow, and Vygotsky) and their contributions to understanding education and schooling.