Course | How to Design Play-Based Lessons for Deeper Learning (45 Minutes)

Price

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Facilitators

1. Hayley Sommeling-Farrugia is an experienced Early Years Educator, Primary School Teacher, and Instructional Designer for Cool. Hayley is an expert at developing content that considers the educational journey from start to finish, as she knows first-hand the experiences, knowledge and challenges of the educators.

2. Daniel Donahoo's work is driven by play, technology and narrative. An experienced educator and author specialising in books centred around families, media, and technology. He wrote “Idolising Children” and (co-author) “Adproofing Your Kids”. Daniele writes and blogs regularly on the topics of technology, children, education and families.

This course has been designed in consultation with experts in the fields of education and wellbeing.

Description

How to Design Play-Based Lessons for Deeper Learning is a 45-minute microprofessional learning course designed to help teachers make lessons more engaging, creative, and enjoyable for students and educators alike. This course explores how to design learning experiences that are both fun and deeply meaningful, using play-based and constructivist approaches across primary and secondary settings.

You’ll learn how to use multimodal strategies to build immersive scenarios, incorporate storytelling and narrative to boost student connection, and design activities that spark curiosity and joy. Whether you're looking to refresh your approach or build more excitement into your lessons, this course will help you create learning environments that students (and teachers) look forward to.

You Will Learn:

- To consider how play-based learning and constructivist approaches can be used in primary and secondary settings.
- To use multimodal learning to create scenarios and experiences that are playful and immersive.
- How to incorporate stories and narratives that help connect students' learning

Course Content

Creating Immersive and Playful Learning
01. Introduction
02. Beginnings Matter
03. Invocation for Beginnings
04. The Learning Zone
05. Using Story
06. Multimodal Classrooms
07. Physical Spaces
08. Alternate Reality Games in Education
09. Reflection
10. Congratulations

Course Time

About 30 to 45 minutes - perfect for after work or during a spare period. You will have ongoing access via your user dashboard.

Alignment to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards

All of Cool.org's courses are mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and your completion can be logged as relevant, teacher-identified professional development activity with all Australian state teaching regulatory authorities. To do this, grab your certificate of completion from your personal dashboard once the course is complete.

3.2.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
3.3.2 Use teaching strategies
3.4.2 Select and use resources