EDUREFORM Pedagogical Tools
Our mind is like a muscle. The more we use certain cognitive skills, the more those skills are fostered. Our EDUREFORM pedagogical tools aim to foster three important cognitive skills among the secondary school students: creativity, analytical and critical thinking skills.
Brain Work
18 February 2022Brain work is a concept-based learning technique which makes it necessary for the child to carry out research work. This research work helps him/her thoroughly understand a particular concept or lesson taught in the classroom. It enable students to think…
Case Study
18 February 2022Case Study is an innovative pedagogical tool which helps students in problem solving and making learning process more interesting. Case study is a task , which aims to teach the students how to analyse the causes and consequences of an…
Computational Thinking
18 February 2022Computational thinking for solving problems is the advancement in thinking process and helps to enhance the thinking skills scientifically among an individual. Considering Computational thinking as a pedagogical tool/ technique led to a challenge and aroused interest and satisfaction among…
Concept Formation
18 February 2022Concept Formation is an excellent tool as it involves comparative thinking, symbolic representations and logical reasoning. It lets the user understand how concepts are classified in regular life and how there are different rationales for different classifications. A concept is…
Debate
18 February 2022In our current times, we are overcrowded and saturated with a large amount of information. Under these circumstances, being able to contrast information and to critically assess its source and veracity, is crucial to become responsible and socially aware citizens….
Eduscrum
18 February 2022EduScrum is based on the idea of the agile mindset where individuals have the attitude and are able to cope with the growing complexity of the work environment, professional or educational. It is very useful for project-based learning where students…
Elisir and Poison
18 February 2022Classrooms tend to be portrayed as spaces where mistakes and errors equal failure. In this environment, students develop a ‘fear’ of making mistakes which is detrimental to the learning process. ‘Elisir and Poison’ is a pedagogical tool that puts the…
Fiesi Model for Productive Thinking
18 February 2022FIESI stands for Foundation, Ideation, Evaluation, Stabilization and Implication. This model is developed by keeping in mind the components of teaching model viz. focus, syntax, support system, social system, role of teacher/students and application. This productive thinking model has a…
Future Factory: Innovation and Learning
18 February 2022Future Factory is a work-related entrepreneurial innovation and learning model, where students from interdisciplinary fields solve problems and challenges related to real cases in the working life, industry, or RDI-projects. This will help to enhance their innovation, entrepreneurship, specific and…
Heads and Tails
18 February 2022Every experience, person and object offer a unique blend of good and bad. Ability to see good in bad and bad in good involves analytical and critical thinking skill that makes us tolerant and empathetic humans. Likewise, the tool Heads…
Integrated and Interactive Lesson Plan
18 February 2022With the changing needs of classrooms comes a need for the change in lesson plans. Integrated and interactive lesson plan enables pupils to learn from basic to complex level, promotes critical thinking and constructivist approach to learning. It provides a…
MAX
18 February 2022The reflection tool MAX (Motivation- Acquisition-Extension) enhances students analytical skills based on Autonomous Learning theory in which self management approach is dominant and benefits from student’s motivation, acquisition and extension. The aim of MAX is to elicit different opinions from…
Micro Learning
18 February 2022With our attention span decreasing day by day, our ability to understand and remember long form content is being impacted. In this digital age, continuous technological changes are inspiring new ideas and strategies that improve learning. Microlearning is a tool…
Multi-perspective Teaching
18 February 2022Multi-perspective Teaching is the amalgamation of co-curricular with academics thereby imparting knowledge to students by enhancing their creative skills. It stresses on varying learning paces and styles of students in contrast to traditional teaching methods that hindered the development of…
Open Book Environment
18 February 2022Open book environment tool provides flexibility in teaching and learning techniques, by providing the students with a learning that links the classroom to their lives; and more importantly it put aside rote learning by fostering conceptual understanding. It helps students to…
Peer Facilitated Classroom Session [PFCS]
18 February 2022The tool “Peer facilitated learning” enables teachers to engage students in a meaningful peer learning experience. It is a combination of reciprocal peer teaching and class-wide peer teaching. This innovative pedagogy reflects the reality students will face not only at…
Production Process Analysis [PPA]
18 February 2022Production process analysis tool will help to develop critical, creative and analytical thinking. It is used to examine the complete life cycle of a product or service and whether it fulfils the needs. In a world where we are constantly…
Reflective Cheat Sheet
18 February 2022Reflection is the process that helps us know who we are, what we are good at, what we need to improve what we know and what we don’t know. It is an essential metacognitive skill. Reflective Cheat Sheet is a…
TEAL
18 February 2022TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) methodology which was created in order to foster the use of learning technologies within the teaching and learning of Physics, considering the high percentage of failures at exams. The tool is aimed to achieve its…
Teacher to Innovation Coach
18 February 2022The Teacher to Innovation Coach Programme concentrates on the idea of shared responsibility within the framework outcome-driven tasks and is designed to develop one’s professional skills. The ideas contained within the Teacher to Innovation Coach Programme can be used in…
Teaching Interplay
18 February 2022“The Teaching Interplay- Instructing to Learn with In-service and Pre-service Teachers” is a pedagogical tool which is an integral part of the teacher’s training at pre-service and in-service level. This tool is important and is needed to train both in-service…
1 + 1 = 1
18 February 2022Imagination is the source of every human achievement. The innovative pedagogical tool 1+1= 1 breaks the existing stigma that creativity is a skill that should only serve the ‘artistic’ professions and to justify its necessity to become a horizontal and…