WILD EDUCATION
What is BUILD?
This is professional development for professional educators.
B - Through Branching, we create opportunities for practice, feedback, small-scale trials, and low-risk products. Our goal is reiteration (not repetition), with time and energy centred on growth experiences.
U - Universally applicable, our Learning Designs can be customized by every teacher to enrich assessments or day-to-day lessons, no matter the grade or subject specialization.
I - This plan is Immersive, leading students and teachers alike to dig deeply into materials and interact intensively with collaborators - to stay awhile and explore.
L D - Our Learning Designs are deployed for explicit curriculum goals; are directed at specific skills and attitudes; are student-centred and inquiry driven; are flexible and sensitive to differentiation; are open to student voice and choice; and position the teacher as co-learner, audience, facilitator, and steward.
BUILD is a scalable and flexible program that is immediately applicable and meaningful for any educational plan - from single short lessons to year-long courses.
How does BUILD professional development work?
BUILD thinking centres important ideas that matter.
Our BUILD professional development employs a planning framework that equips teachers to embed learning in key concepts, essential materials, and collaboration. As a program that is student-centred, inquiry-driven, and open to student voice and choice - and that encourages thoughtful feedback and a growth mindset - Educating Earthlings’ BUILD framework efficiently transforms proven pedagogical principles into best practice.
The Earthlings professional development program progresses through 3 integral phases. First, participants explore the fundamentals of the BUILD program. Next, we conduct an immersive collaborative example in real time. This leads to the final phase, in which we “workshop” specific lesson plans for use and assessment. Every participant takes away an improved technique for classroom planning and tactics that equip them to conduct great immersive teaching. Learning communities and curricula can be immediately transformed.