Language Across The Curriculum

TISSx-COOL

About This Resource

Please stay safe! Use these COOL resources for TE and continue with your professional education during this COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period. You can use the URL www.tissx.tiss.edu or the TISSx android app.

What do the resources offer?

The Connected Open Online Learning (COOL) resources are meant to enable student teachers and teacher educators to stay connected to their learning and engage with concepts and practices for active and inclusive teaching and learning.
They are mapped onto the B.Ed Curriculum Framework of NCTE. (See the table below). Please note that these resources consist of some of the key topics put together as a resource and do not cover the entire course comprehensively.
These resources provide an overview of key topics from each course based on current research and practices. They are not exhaustive. It is essential to follow up with rigorous readings and school-based practices that are integral and necessary for teacher preparation. The resources provide scaffolding for some readings and suggestions for tasks to strengthen practice.

This resource on ‘Language Across the Curriculum’ course is based on available Open Education Resources (OERs) in the field of language education and research with a focus on perspectives in school education. The resources aim to enable student teachers and teacher educators to understand the concept of language in a broader sense, focusing especially on its role in thought and early concept formation. The resource aims to raise questions around language and cognition and sensitise learners to the socio-political dimensions of language education in India. The resources provide scope for further reading to deepen one’s understanding, provide critical questions for reflection, and engage with tasks, connecting theory to practice.

We hope you will find these resources useful. We also invite you to enroll in our online modular certificate courses when they are announced on tissx.tiss.edu.

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NCTE curriculum and OERs mapping

S.No.	NCTE B.Ed. Curriculum topics	COOL Resource
1	Understanding language and creating sensitivity to language diversity in the classroom	Understanding nature & function of language Analysing the role of language in concept formation (across subjects) Sensitizing teachers to language diversity in the classroom & understanding children’s language backgrounds Reflecting on the power dynamics of the ‘standard’ and ‘non-standard’ language in the classroom Understanding multilingualism and using it as a resource in classroom teaching >

TISS offers modular courses under the Post-Graduate Certificate for Reflective Teaching with ICT (RTICT), which have been offered by TISS to over 2000 teachers. This program will be useful for teachers and B.Ed students. The courses were developed as a part of the Connected Learning Initiative (clix.tiss.edu) an initiative seeded by the Tata Trusts and led by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA; Winner of the King Hamad Prize for Excellence in the Use of ICTs in Education (2018). CLIx OER (https://clixoer.tiss.edu) has several modules, simulations, and tools relating to school science, mathematics and English learning.

Another program offered at TISS, Mumbai, the Post Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Education Perspectives and Research (PGC-CEPR) is aimed at providing continuous professional development to faculty of teacher education institutions, M.Ed students, NGO personnel involved in teacher education, education administrators and policymakers.

TISS-COOL is supported by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and grants from the Tata Trusts and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching.

Resource Team

Jennifer Thomas

Lavanya Murali

Kuheli Sarkar

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