Advance your teaching career. Master the strategies and tools to reach and teach students effectively based on innovative insights.
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The Teaching with Unconventional Thinking specialization is a foundational program that prepares you to teach based on insights from the cutting edge of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and film. Your instructors have hands-on experience teaching some of the world’s most popular courses, bringing with them a background from academia and beyond, including perspectives gained from decades of teaching at nearly all levels, personal experience with neurodiversity, underwater adventures in the Bering Sea to the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and much more.
A teaching specialization with unconventional thinking provides you with a way to upgrade your teaching skills by acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to jumpstart your career or strengthen your teaching foundation – no matter who you teach. You can start with MOOC 0 or MOOC 1, and enjoy MOOC 2 after MOOC 1. Enjoy!
At the end of this internship, you will be able to:
Are your students spending too much (or too little) time learning with disappointing results? Do they procrastinate because it’s boring and they’re easily distracted? Are you working to make your teaching more inclusive? Teaching with unconventional logic will give you new and practical insights to help you meet these challenges and more. This is a course like no other – it combines up-to-date insights from the world of neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom, providing new, unexpected but practical approaches. Discover how to bring out the best in all your students in today’s diverse learning environment, where students often have a wide range of abilities.
Education with unconventional logic elevates your teaching to a higher level, in any subject you teach, whether it’s math, physics, literature, dance, art or anything else; and whether you teach in elementary school, high school, university, vocational training or at home.
Join us today as we transition into the new era of education!
In Part 2 of Education with Unconventional Logic: Building Community and Learning Habits, you will explore these areas in depth – helping you connect with the latest research insights and have fun doing it!
This is a course like no other – it combines up-to-date insights from the world of neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom, providing new, unexpected yet practical approaches. Discover how to bring out the best in all your students in today’s diverse learning environment, where students often have a wide range of abilities.
Education with unconventional logic elevates your teaching to a higher level, in any field you teach.
Join us today as we transition into the new era of education!
In Education with Unconventional Logic: Online Teaching, we’d love to help you approach new approaches to online teaching that are informed by the latest insights from scientific research. We’ll use insights from the world of film – not to mention the quirky visual tricks in Barb’s kitchen – to understand how students learn, both independently and together.
We all know, for example, that social learning is valuable in helping students grapple with difficult concepts and also making learning more enjoyable. But if you understand what happens in the brain during social learning, you can also understand why certain approaches commonly used in online learning, such as discussion forums, can sometimes be challenging.
As you will see, we can use insights from the world of neuroscience not only to motivate students, but also to help them change their identity. Our course is designed for university professors, professional instructors, teachers, coaches, business mentors, parents, and basically anyone trying to teach concepts or skills online.
We’re not just talking about traditional academic materials – if you’ve ever considered teaching a course on Udemy, uploading a video series to Youtube, or launching your own educational blog, this course is for you too.
A crucial and exciting point is that students can learn even better online than in a traditional classroom. This means whether you teach synchronously – that is, live, via a platform like Zoom; or if you teach asynchronously – that is, at any time – by providing videos and additional materials for students to access when they want.
You can take this course independently of the other two “Education with Unconventional Logic” courses in this specialization – some of the insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology that we will mention here in simple ways, have been explored in more depth in the other courses. So feel free to take the other two courses at the same time or after this one.
If you have already taken the previous courses, you will find that this course reviews and expands the practical insights from the world of neurology you have already received in new and unexpected directions. You will also find deeper insights that we have not covered before.
In online teaching, you will join three experienced instructors who have delivered highly popular courses to the public around the world. One of our deep goals in this course is to help you teach others to improve their ability to reach and teach students.
We have placed the animations and visuals we developed for this course online in PowerPoints (licensed under Creative Commons) in the Resources under the Videos, as well as in the Resources section. You can modify the PowerPoints as you wish to re-teach these materials to your colleagues and students. Your sharing of these materials is one of the best things you can do to help us advance teaching and learning into a visual future.
You are the foundation – children, adults, and society as a whole can break forward thanks to your desire to learn and spread these new ideas!
