Products and Services
Teacher Training DVD’s
DVD with Educator’s Guide: Thinking Powers for Reading Comprehension: How to integrate reading into learning area teaching.
- A curriculum for teaching Metacognition across all grades
- Scenes from real classrooms that show how to teach thinking across the curriculum, grades 4-7 featured
- Animations of the reading process, how the brain processes information and learns
“A valuable Resource,” Curriculum Officer of WCED, 2008
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THINKING POWERS FOR READING COMPREHENSION: How to integrate reading into learning area teaching with Educator’s Guide
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CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING FOR OBE: Developing the human capacity in your classroom with Educator’s Guide
- How to design groupwork tasks with the five Co-operative Learning Principles
- Scenes from real classrooms from Grade R to Grade 7 using Co-operative Learning across the curriculum
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Curriculum Development
Learning Programmes: Getting Connected with Co-operative Learning: Creating a learning community for literacy
- How to set up Co-operative Learning practices in your classroom while addressing all language learning area outcomes
- Methods and tools applicable to all learning area teaching
Curriculum for teaching Metacognition across the grades and learning areas
- Five thinking powers that learners of all ages need for reading, writing and learning
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Effective Teaching Tools
SEBEZAPHONE: a new, simple, powerful teaching tool for reading. Use the Sebezaphone to successfully implement CAPS and the BALANCED LANGUAGE APPROACH TO LITERACY. Transform your teaching! In virtually a silent classroom every learner reads out loud at once, in a whisper, into their very own Sebezaphone. Each learner’s voice is amplified so that they can clearly hear themselves read without disturbing others, better focus, understand and develop fluency.
Pre-designed interactive learning activities for large groups and pair and small group work in all age groups
o to achieve outcomes and develop ‘buy-in’
o to achieve learning area outcomes of mastery learning and concept development
o to apply comprehension strategies
o to develop decoding skills
o to apply writing-to-learn strategies
Curriculum Planners to design and implement lessons for enhanced learning
- MetaGroup’s Co-operative Learning Lesson Sequence
- MetaGroup’s Planner for Strategic Teaching
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Resource Pack with workshops include
- How to translate brain research into best classroom practice
- MetaGroup’s Planners for Strategic Teaching and creating optimal learning environments
- Co-operative Learning People Organisers that are pre-designed pair and groupwork tasks that ensure equal participation, accountability and development of social skills
- Pre-designed whole class, pair and small groupwork activities for classbuilding, teambuilding, mastery learning, concept development and reflective tasks
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Consulting Services: Site based collaborations
Education Sector: whole school development, teacher collaboration
- Develop, design and implement programmes for teaching and curriculum enrichment
- Develop a balanced literacy programme across learning areas and grades
- Enable development of high performance teams for administrators, teachers, parents and community members
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Corporate Sector: Create a learning organisation
- Interactive meetings, workshops and course design and facilitation techniques
- Strategies to develop high performance teams and manage change effectively
- Training the facilitator or trainer in effective facilitation techniques for meetings, workshops and courses
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Resources for implementing the Foundations for Learning Campaign
MetaGroup offers resources to help you implement the South African Foundations for Learning Campaign
(1) Learning Programme: Getting Connected with Co-operative Learning: How to create a learning community for literacy. Start implementing the Campaign tomorrow. This step by step guide uses the instructional strategies outlined in the language component of the Campaign. Create an inclusive and co-operative learning classroom so that your learners become a vital teaching resource and extend your reach to every child. Promote literacy and language development from day one by engaging learners in speaking and actively listening while developing thinking strategies for reading, writing and learning and mastering decoding skills. This programme is especially designed for facilitating large classes of learners with diverse needs. Click here (to professional development course on Getting connected)
(2) Use the MetaGroup Planner for Strategic Teaching to design lessons that meet the instructional goals outlined in the Foundations of Learning Campaign. (click here to see Strategic Teaching planner)
(3) CL principles and practices, (click here for CL wheel) together with the CL People Organisers (click here to explanation of People Organisers in CL lesson sequence section) provide you with a variety of ways to design pair and small group work for equal participation, improved learning by all and the development of social skills.
(4) Comprehension Strategies are pre-designed activities for before, during and after learning and reading to enable learners to develop their decoding and reading comprehension skills. (click here to Professional Development Course: Implementing Foundations for Learning Campaign.)
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Courses and Workshops
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- Thinking strategies for reading, writing and learning
- Make metacognition a daily aspect of teaching
- Promote thinking powers through non-verbal representations and active engagement with reading and writing for learning.
- Co-operative Learning
- Discover how to design groupwork tasks for co-operation and implement lessons for inclusion so that learners want to and are able to learn together co-operatively
- Change potential discipline problems into co-operative learning behaviours
- Getting Connected with Co-operative Learning: Creating a learning community for literacy
- Enable learners to engage with all language learning area outcomes while establishing co-operative practices and classroom management routines
- Co-operative Learning, Multiple Intelligences and how the brain learns best
- Translate brain research into best classroom practice
- Design co-operative groupwork tasks with Multiple Intelligences to active learners’ prior knowledge, process new information and build background academic knowledge while having fun
- Implement Foundations for Learning Campaign with large classes of learners with diverse needs
- Discover classroom management techniques and numerous pre-designed strategies that will empower you to implement the instructional goals of the Campaign and enable learners to achieve learning area outcomes.
- Training the trainer and facilitator
- Become a curriculum leader and guide educators to
- Design coherent learning experiences that enable learners to achieve ultimate learning outcomes
- Facilitate simultaneous interaction of total class, pairs and small groups of learners with diverse needs learning activities
- Translate brain research into best classroom practice
- Become a curriculum leader and guide educators to
Managing the Group Dynamics for Meetings and Teams
- Design interactive meetings to bring out the creativity, wisdom and commitment of your team members
- With the aid of MataGroup’s “Group Dynamic Barometer” discover how to develop risk-free environments to promote open communication, creative problem solving, and succeed in managing change
- Experience a variety of facilitation techniques to unleash to potential of the group: Co-operative Learning, Appreciative Inquiry, Deep Democracy.
| DVD and Educator’s Guide: Thinking Powers for Reading Comprehension: How to integrate reading into learning area teaching *This 120 minute DVD presents a curriculum for metacognition to teach thinking strategies for reading, writing and learning. South African educators use ‘non-linguistic representations’ so that learners of mixed ability and language competence can see, hear and feel what each thinking strategy means. Lessons show how to enable learners to apply thinking strategies to classroom learning and textbook reading. | DVD and Educator’s Guide: Co-operative Learning for OBE: Developing the human capacity in your classroom*The 47-minute training DVD shows CL in action in South African classrooms, with detailed explanations of how CL fosters co-operation, equal participation and improved learning. |
| For more information: Alyce Milleralyce@icon.co.za; +27 72 148 1284 | To purchase DVD with educator’s guide: http://edumedia.wcape.school.za/catalog +27 21 689 9536 |