Module 1: Cooperative Learning

• Distinguish peer learning from cooperative learning 
• Articulate the goals of the Jigsaw method

• Identify examples of cooperative learning

Module 2: Social Emotional Learning

• Define social emotional learning
• Identify five key competencies that social emotional learning (SEL) promotes within the CASEL framework

• Promote SEL competencies in different contexts

Module 3: Guided Discovery

• Articulate the benefits of guided discovery, where they apply, and where they don’t

• Design guided discovery interventions by leveraging effective feedback

Module 4: Fostering Help Seeking

• Identify the different stages in the help-seeking process (identifying you need help, deciding to seek help, deciding where to turn with questions, checking answer validity)
• Identify strategies that improve help-seeking in each stage in the help-seeking process (identifying you need help, deciding to seek help, deciding where to turn with questions, checking answer validity)
• Name strategies to leverage a learners’ prior knowledge to assist in the help-seeking process

• Evaluate to what extent an existing tool fosters help-seeking behavior

Module 5: Learnersourcing

• Define learnersourcing
• Identify tasks that are appropriate for learnersourcing
• Name key challenges with learnersourcing
• Order key steps in implementing a learnersourcing task

• Explain the method(s) behind each key step in implementing a learnersourcing task

Module 6: Course Project

At the end of this course, you’ll have an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge by revising and improving a lesson plan using the techniques covered in this course. You’ll also create a guide that synthesizes what you have learned. The project will be graded by the instructor and you will receive personalized feedback along with a sample solution.

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