Online Courses
Starting Monday 3rd February 2025
TSSA will be offering three online courses in February 2025. These three courses will be metacognitive in nature, as they will be interactive and involve thoughtful practice, so participants are not just watching and reading, but applying and discussing what they have learned, and reflecting on this practice with other participants. Facilitators will be available to discuss work in progress and concerns as they arise. The three courses "Encourage Active Processing through using the Visible Thinking Routines", "Thinking Maps for Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving", and "Three Key Dimensions to Prepare Students for the Age of AI: Skills, Character & Meta-Learning" all build a common language of thinking as they are appplicable across grades and subject disciplines.
Camilla Antonie
Sonja Vandeleur
Sally James
Course 1 : Encourage Active Processing through Visible Thinking Routines
Camilla Antonie
5th, 12th, 19th & 26th February
16:00 - 17:30
These sessions will explore thinking routines to enhance learning and promote critical, creative and reflective thinking to foster deep thinking and engagement in the classroom. You will discover a toolkit of practical strategies to make students thinking visible and to promote metacognition.
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You will learn:​
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What a thinking routine is
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How to select and conduct various thinking routines
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How to use thinking routines as diagnostic tools
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Why documentation is so important
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Camilla Antonie is one of TSSA's top facilitators. She is an experienced teacher who embeds the Visible Thinking Routines into her own practice. Camilla is an English teacher at St Stithian's Boys College.
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Course 2: Three Key Dimensions to Prepare Students for the Age of AI
Sonja Vandeleur
4th, 11th, 18th & 25th February
16:00 - 17:30
The three key dimensions that schools need to focus on to prepare students for the age of AI are Skills (how we use what we know), Character (how we behave and engage in the world), and Meta-Learning (how we reflect and adapt). The fourth dimension of knowledge (what we know) is what schools and AI provide so well. These four sessions will explore most of the sub-competencies for the three dimensions, and we will examine what these look like in a classroom setting. Simple but powerful strategies to incorporate these into lessons will be discussed.
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You will learn:​
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about each of the three dimensions and their sub-competencies
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how to integrate simple strategies into everyday teaching to develop these dimensions
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how to explore ways of measuring progress in the classroom
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Sonja Vandeleur is CEO of TSSA. She is a highly experienced teacher, and her latest position was that of Head of Department for Cognitive Education at Roedean School (SA). She has a masters degree in Creative and Critical Thinking and a PhD in education. Sonja believes in the whole-school approach to embedding thinking skills into the curriculum, and she is passionate about empowering educators and students to become better thinkers.
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Course 3: Thinking Maps to Build Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
3rd, 10th & 17th Feb
16:00 - 17:30
Sally James is Deputy Head at SACS Junior School. She has many years of promoting the use of Thinking Maps® to the teachers at her school. The Thinking Maps® provide a shared visual language for learning. It is a brain-based approach to teaching and learning, and the Maps provide a means for putting down and sharing patterns of thinking. By using the Maps, students will build comprehension, communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
COST​
15% discount for TSSA Network School members
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COURSE 1 & 2 (4 sessions)
R3 575 pp per course
R2 145 pp per course for BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL! Book and pay by 4th December.
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COURSE 3 (3 sessions)
R2 400 pp per course
R1 440 pp per course for BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL! Book and pay by 4th December!
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Book for 4, pay for 3! Any combination - cheapest course free!
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