Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

by Dr. Abdurrahman Umar -
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Green Teacher at National Teachers' Institute (NTI) Kaduna, Nigeria ……the journey so far

  1. The Project document for the Green Teacher Programme has been developed and approved. The document provides details on the following:
  • the target group;
  •  the rationale, goals and objectives;
  • the most suitable approach or approaches to be used;
  • the modalities for programme development and delivery (e.g Online or a blended approach) etc;
  •  establishment  of linkages and partnerships with relevant stakeholders (state and federal ministries of education and environment, local tertiary institutions,  relevant governments agencies and international development partners);
  • Programme sustainability; and
  • Potentials for internationalizing NTI’s Green Teacher Programme in West Africa.
  1. Capacity of NTI staff on materials development for Environmental Education using a Problem-based Learning Framework was built.
  2. Materials design and development workshops were organised during which the structure and detailed contents of the Green Teacher Programme were discussed and agreed upon.
  3. Four Draft modules have been developed and are currently being revised and improved upon by a team of experts. It is hoped that the modules will be finalized before the end of March 2018.
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Re: Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

by Deleted user -

I think this adequately captured the journey so far on the Green Teacher Nigeria Project. the capacity of staff had been improved and the managemen had been very supportive and enthusiastic about the Project. we are looking forward to the e-Facilitation component of the Initiative which will kick off shortly. we appreciate COL' efforts in this regard.

oludeidowu

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Re: Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

by Anouk Janssens-Bevernage -

Thank you for sharing this overview Abdurrahman!

I look forward to seeing the modules. These will be great teaching resources. You mention a PBL framework which was used in the capacity building of NTI staff. As we're doing the same in Kiribati, we'd love to see what that looks like. Are you providing examples of PBL units which are ready-to-use as well as showing teachers how best they can develop their own? Is any of this online, or is it all face-to-face? Have you developed any micro-learning nuggets as well (e.g. job aids for f2f or mini-modules online) and if not, is this part of the planning?

Thank you for providing any additional insights,

Anouk

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Re: Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

by Dr. Abdurrahman Umar -

Hi Anouk, in response to your question, I wish to say that we did not develop specific modules  or units on PBL but PBL provided the framework for the development of the modules. The capacity building workshop trained NTI staff on how to use PBL strategies to develop materials for the Green Teacher Programme. The modules will be available online and also delivered F2Fwhen they are finalised.  We have not yet developed any micro-learning nuggets but it is something we should  perhaps think about. Can you shed more light on how PBL framework is used in Kiribati? Did you develop specific units on PBL and built capacity of participants to use it to develop their materials. Can you share some of these units?

Thank you

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Re: Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

by Deleted user -

Anouk,

Your questions are very much and thought provoking to us in NTI so are those Dr Abdurrahman pised back. COL and NTI have plans for mixroelearning capacity buiding and units development in their next steps for this year. We will need answere to those questions to inform our planning. Again., where necessary we may not have to re ivent the wheels. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Green Teacher at NTI Kaduna……the journey so far

by Anouk Janssens-Bevernage -

Hi Abdurrahman,

Thanks for these additional insights. I'm a little confused though so allow me to ask a few further questions...

By "using a PBL framework to develop the modules", do you mean that you used PBL to do the instructional design? I have never seen PBL used this way, so I would be grateful if you could share more details on how that works. 

Our focus in Kiribati has been very much on learning by demonstration, i.e. "this is what PBL/IBL looks like in your context... how can you use this in your own courses?" 

The Kiribati team was exposed to "PBL in action' in the e-facilitation workshop they did with me back in November. There is no theory around PBL in that workshop (the focus is on learning how to e-facilitate). It's built on PBL/SCL principles though, so people learn heaps by just watching how it's done. That's a great stepping stone (and a necessary mind-shift) for questions like "what could that look like in one of the courses that you teach"?

This is an example of some of the work completed:

The initial draft of the new course on innovative teaching techniques included a number of tasks that looked at PBL from an academic perspective. I helped the team to turn this around and offer a more practical approach to PBL/IBL, one that the student-teachers can also take to their classrooms. So for example, the course looks at WebQuests as one type of PBL that can be used in secondary schools. Now instead of "talking about" WebQuests (based on literature review etc.) we focus on exploring examples and building their own in the context of climate change in Kiribati.

Hope this clarifies,

Anouk