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Best Problem-Based Learning Ideas For Children EDITOR'S PICK     May 30, 2020     Sophia William     Blog ,  Editor's Pick ,  Lifestyle Register to Follow Author Children need to start making real-life connections between what they learn and their daily lives and develop resilience. Problem-based Learning is therefore the ideal pedagogy for today’s world. For successful problem solving, they cannot work in stills and have to make the connection between several disciplines and efficiently weave them together to conclude. The educator’s role is simply to guide while ensuring that it is mainly a learner-driven effort. The traditional way of learning is now a thing of the past. A teacher is no longer a ‘sage on the stage’ but a passionate guide, who focuses on developing interest and encouraging the student to explore. This has resulted in children getting exposed to a vast range of concepts at an early age and being equipped to delve deeply into them. However, there is much more t

Published on  Education for Global Development TRACY WILICHOWSKI CRISTOBAL COBO | MAY 28, 2020 This page in:   English Countries now have an opportunity to build back better and must consider how best to help teachers not only cope through the crisis, but also become better equipped with the skills to succeed in the wake of it. Averting the damage brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic  requires an  aggressive education policy response , which involves: i) coping  during the crisis to reduce learning loss while schools are closed, ii) managing continuity of learning to promote learning recovery as  schools reopen  safely, and iii) using the crisis as an opportunity to improve and accelerate, making education systems stronger and more equitable than they were before.  Countries now have an opportunity to build back better and must consider how best to help teachers not only cope through the crisis, but also become better equipped with the skills to succeed in the wake of it. 

https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/articles/learning-through-play-classroom-examples Over the past five years, the LEGO Foundation has worked with a series of academic partners to redefine play and learning. As a pedagogy, the LEGO Foundation defines learning through play as joyful, iterative, meaningful, actively engaging, and socially interactive experiences that ‘combine playful, child-directed activity with intentional facilitation on the part of the educator to foster a broad range of learning outcomes,’ (Parker & Thomsen, 2019). This is key: we do not suggest that all play is free play that occurs outside the margins of the classroom when the formal learning is done. We bridge pre-school and school, and play and learning, by acknowledging the central role of the facilitator or teacher in leading, guiding, or stepping back when appropriate, to support learners to achieve their goals. The five characteristics of learning through play are: Joy – feelings of curiosity