Maker Motes at the NIE Beginning Teachers' Orientation Programme

Post date: May 18, 2018 5:37:40 AM

my team and i had the distinct privilege of conducting introductory workshops for this semester’s graduating cohort of pre-service teachers from the National Institute of Education (NIE), under the institute’s Beginning Teachers’ Orientation Programme.

all told, we facilitated the following hour-long workshops:

Introduction to coding with Scratch:

- Primary School Art, Music, Physical Education, and English Language

- Primary School Physical Education, and Mathematics

Introduction to environmental sensors as a means to more authentic student-inquiry:

- Primary School Physical Education, and Mathematics

- Primary School Science; and Secondary School Physical Education, Science, and Mathematics