Training in Teaching and Learning in 21st Century

March 3, 2021 selvam Current Activity

Pedagogue.21
Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Dates
30th March to 1st April 2021
(3-day face to face training – from 8.30am 4.30pm)
Ideal for teachers, lecturers, professors, seminary lecturers, and educators!

Cost: Ksh. 6000/-
(includes lunch+2 teas+
3 days face to face training +20 hours self-paced online training)

Assorted Topics

Competencies for 4th Industrial Revolution
Intellectual agility
Self-learning skills
Cornell Note-taking Technique
Flipped Classroom
Technology Enhanced Learning
LMS: Google Classroom
E-Portfolio
Constructive Alignment
Personal teaching philosophy
Information Literacy
Socrative, PollEverywhere, Menti, etc
Visualising Techniques in PowerPoint
Educational Institutional Culture
Hidden curriculum
Assessment Rubric
Capstone Exercise/Projects
Core Concepts and Threshold Concepts
Creating & Using Case Method
Service Learning
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle
Appreciative Enquiry
Graphic Organisers
National and Regional Qualifications Framework

Certificate of participation will be provided for those who complete the online training (20 hours) following the face to face training (20 hours).
Residential option: Add Ksh.1300/- per night
Due to COVID restrictions we are taking about 25 people in a hall that can contain 65 people. […]

2nd Sunday in Lent Sermon – Cycle B Homily – Learning to Pray

February 24, 2021February 25, 2021 selvam Year B

Going up the mountain: Learning to pray
Second Sunday of Lent – Year B – Mk 9: 2-10
The liturgy of the word of God for Sundays in Lent is very well thought-out and appropriately laid out. On the first Sunday of Lent, in all the three cycles, the central theme is temptations of Jesus. On the second Sunday of Lent, like today, the liturgy of the word invites us to focus on the transfiguration of the Lord. The meditation on the transfiguration during lent becomes for us a prediction of what lies at the end of Lent – the resurrection of the Lord. This is what perhaps it meant for the three apostles who were taken up the mountain only six days after (Mk 9:2) Jesus had told them about his impending suffering and death (Mk 8:31). This was important particularly […]

Foundational Course in Positive Psychology Online

February 22, 2021 selvam Current Activity

PPAK001 – Foundational Course in Positive Psychology
offered by Positive Psychology Association of Kenya (PPAK).
www.positivepsychologykenya.org
Dates: From 1st to 5th March. Time – 5pm to 8pm – ONLINE
(Using a Learning Management System and Zoom live classes)
Costs: Ksh.5000/- | Ksh.4500 for members and returning students.

Certificate of participation will be provided for those who submit some simple assignments.
This is a basic course for a future Certificate in Positive Psychology.
Topics covered:
1.1. History of Positive Psychology
1.2. Models of Wellbeing:

Subjective, Psych, Social wellbeing, PERMA

2.1. Naming feelings & Layers of Affective States:

Feeling, Mood, Feeling, Emotions, Appetite

2.2 Correlates of Happiness:

Wealth, Age, Gender, Education, etc

3.1. Response to Negative Affect:

Stress, Coping, Resilience, Burnout

3.2. Posttraumatic Growth
4.1. Character Strengths as Ingredients of Wellbeing

Various models of Values and CS; Schwartz, Linley, African models, and VIA

4.2. Character Strengths Interventions

Mindfulness, Savouring, Gratitude, Forgiveness.

5.1. Positive Affective States 1:

Positivity, […]

1st Sunday in Lent Sermon – Year B Homily: Roadmap and Compass

February 18, 2021February 19, 2021 selvam Year B

compass “God does not provide us with a roadmap, but only a compass.”
1st Sunday in Lent – Year B (Mark 1:12-15).
Often as I wake up in the morning I get an inspiration. Usually it is in the form of a well-framed sentence. If I am fresh enough to pick it up, it stays with me for the rest of the day. I keep exploring it during the day, and sometimes I jot it down in my diary and use it for my talks and sermons. I call this phenomenon, ‘Twilight Wisdom’. A few days ago I woke up with this sentence: “God does not provide us with a roadmap, but only a compass.” I thought I would develop my Lenten reflections this year around this theme, and every Sunday try also to […]

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sermon – Year B homily

February 3, 2021February 6, 2021 selvam Year B

Mark-1-37-640x480 5th Sunday in Ordinary time – Year B
“Everybody is looking for you” (Mk 1:29-39):
Being busy – restless or engaged?
The contemporary culture forces us to be busy. The more you are urbanised, the more you are likely to be busy. We keep inventing machines to save time, and yet we keep complaining all the time: there is no time! Whether our time is spent productively or not, we are simply busy. We are busy checking emails. We are busy talking on the phone. We are busy tweeting and chatting. When we are not busy, actually we are busy planning how to be busy. Are you a busy person? How do you feel about your busy-ness? Do you feel restless? Or, do you feel engaged?
The gospel passage of today describes the busy schedule […]