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About the Course

The Foundations of Teaching for Learning programme is for anyone who is teaching, or who would like to teach, in any subject and any context - be it at school, at home or in the workplace. With dynamic lessons taught by established and respected professionals from across the Commonwealth, this eight course programme will see you develop and strengthen your skills in teaching, professionalism, assessment, and more. As you carry on through the programme, you will find yourself strengthening not only your skills, but your connection with colleagues across the globe. A professional development opportunity not to be missed. How we teach has its foundation in how we were taught and how we learned. This course provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your personal and professional development as a teacher. Through reflection and portfolio development you will enhance your knowledge and understanding of how to promote learning. Enhance your course by joining the Commonwealth teaching community on our website, Facebook and Twitter....

Top reviews

KA

Nov 17, 2016

Really liked this course it gave me so much to learn, improve and development. One of the best course for teachers. And I would like to thanks the professors of this course. THANK YOU!

UA

Jun 25, 2020

it was excellent....i really felt myself so blessed to have access to this useful material and Professor Dennis has been a wonderful teacher throughout the journey...Thanks to him

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By Mai-Wah C

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May 24, 2020

I really love this series of teaching course. It is insightful, yet presented in a very simple way. It gave you enough materials to learn, and more if you want to drill down further. Thank you for putting this series online.

By Manik C P

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Nov 5, 2017

This course is part of a specialization which every teacher should complete. This provides comprehensive information necessary for every teacher. Thanks Commonwealth Education Trust for bringing out this course.

By xochitl c

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Mar 30, 2020

El tiempo invertido en éste curso es de lo mejor, podemos darnos cuenta de muchos errores que podemos cometer al dar clases, aprendimos cómo mejorar como persona y como maestro.

By JeaNMaRC S

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Oct 31, 2017

Very interesting and a good way to reflect on what I have done over the past 14 years working at the Montessori British School. It opens your eyes to new possibilities.

By Poonam K

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May 7, 2022

I learned about creating positive environment during learning process and treating my learners equal. This course taught me what it really means to be a teacher.

By Neha J

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Aug 16, 2020

Amazing course for teachers. It helped me a lot in understanding more about being a teacher and how I can grow and develop, understand my students and classroom.

By Cristina E R

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Jul 29, 2022

I found very useful the emphasis on reflecting,

the language used in class and validating different cultures,

and he pyramid of support and the learning pyramid .

By David E P D L

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Jan 30, 2018

Good course. It really helped me to realize different elements about foundations of teaching I didn't know since I had no formal degrees in education before.

By oyunbileg

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May 18, 2019

Take a moment to reflect on your hard work and enjoy your completion of Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Being a Teacher. You’ve earned it. I am happy.

By tiffany t

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Nov 19, 2017

This course has taught me how to be a better teacher and how to be more flexible as a teacher with my students according to my students learning ability.

By SERGIO F O G

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Jun 22, 2022

The speaker's reflections were very inspirational. I feel I can take a lot of what was discussed here and apply it not only in my duties as a teacher.

By Nuhman M

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Aug 16, 2020

The course gives lot of insights for one choose teaching as a profession. It will definitly help the educators to grow personally and professionally.

By Ryan A

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Jul 15, 2020

An excellent course which will have you engage in greater reflection around your role as a teacher and the relationship between teacher and student.

By Chitra.s

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Oct 20, 2020

It was a great experience and learning. Thank you for your efforts. As a teacher I could able to learn so many things with different perspectives.

By Lavanya N

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May 4, 2020

This course was really helpful with reading materials and videos . It covered all that is required for being an effective teacher , thank you !

By Haitham C

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Sep 12, 2021

Great course, well established, very useful and scientific, power points are a great help , will use and develop a lot in my teachings

By Noemi R M

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Feb 22, 2017

Me gustó mucho, es muy interesante y me ayudó mucho. Desearía que se realizaran nuevamente los vídeos con una mejor calidad de sonido.

By Vannisastantin W

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Jul 26, 2020

I actually resented the teaching of Dr Francis at the beginning, especially when he was introducing punishment and discipline at the beginning and his informing about racism and other forms of misdealing with differences in education.

I reckoned that his was only giving negative sides of punishment and said something relatively absolute about punishment, say, "if punished, there could be a superficial sense of willingness to learn". He only emphasised how bad punishments could do and brought up no benefits of punishment, which could mislead an idea, "punishment is definitely not advised under any circumstances", which is probably not what he meant.

When he was talking about race, he also talked like what I would hear everyday. White students are privileged... There was only talking about how races of colours are disadvantaged, and there was no example of how white students may be disadvantaged for being white as well, say, a general prejudice against white students abusing the term "white privilege", which is actually happening in daily situations in Australia. He brought up many good points to reflect on, but they are the points that have been talked about, in fact, even hated against in daily lives. And one could assume that this kind of pointing out the defects without laying out the merits of something would indirectly encourage extreme behaviours such as hatred and conflict.

However, as I progressed into the last bit of the course, I realised, some of these things I expected to hear actually was planned out in the latter half of the course. How ignorant I was overthinking about this at the beginning!

Professor Francis' teaching is relatively comprehensive and insightful. The content is well appreciated. The only reason why I did not mark 5 stars is because the recording quality is not as ideal as one would expect for an online lecture.

By Bethany B

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Jul 19, 2016

The ideas are good, but I dislike the presentation. It's hard to read the screen and quotes when they're only on the screen for a few moments. Lengthy lists are presented, however, I need to pause the video if I want to know anything that's on the list beyond the first two points. These are often the only points explained. If one is only concerned with the spoken word, then you'll gather an okay amount of information.

By Kostas S

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Dec 1, 2022

I was expecting a course in a better level. This one was mostly for teacher in schools I suppose and was too narrative. it didn't give tools and pedagogic techniques for teaching for example at post graduate level for example. What was very bad, was the quality of the sound of the videos and the slides that were very primitive

By Claudio V B

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Dec 8, 2015

Great as an introduction for many things but, unfortunately, it is not possible to keep on developing the themes presented on the lectures because there is no access to the sources used. Without a functional bibliography for the course, the full potential for learning of those enroled is tragically cut.

By Sara J F

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Mar 27, 2021

The course was well structed but it was very hard hearing the professor. It sounded like the voice was from a tin can. I struggled listening, thankful for the transcript below but next time do a sound test before recording all the sessions.

By Nisrine1 S

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Feb 3, 2022

This course was helpful in many ways but there were a lot of open ended questions that sometimes I felt like I needed to know a clear answer. And the lecturer was kind of theoretical and I needed to see his theories in action.

By Sara E B

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Jan 30, 2023

It would have been better if the sound quality was enhanced, and I advise you to use more engaging visual aids. Otherwise, thank you for the course.

By Ragab K

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Jun 17, 2022

I really appreicte the teacher's efforts and the material, but i couldn't continue the course due to the voice's problem.