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The VESS training Road Map Level 1
M* = Mandatory

Session Theme

1-1

M* Introduction to VESS

C* = Coaching (after finishing the course, online distance or present coaching, 30 minutes of coaching per every 60 minutes of course)

Goals

Training description

Lecture on Justification,
Demonstrate the learning and
components and
understanding of the meaning and elements of the VESS
purpose of the VESS program
program

Time
2 hours lecture.
Within
the first 2 weeks
since hiring

Recourses

Sources

Power points,
Articles,
books, Videos, online
platforms
VESS Module 1
http://www.learner.
org/courses/neurosci
ence/

On-site OS
On-Line OL
Training

Practice and
Assessment Coaching

Evaluation

Ongoing
Formative
assessment C*
to follow up Group exercises
on progress and discussions

At the end of the
training to assess
the acquisition of
understanding and
learning
OS & OL

C*
Case
discussions
and examples
on
Ongoing
implementation
Formative
of the BM&E
assessment concepts into
to follow up the classroom
on progress environment

At the end of the
training to assess
the acquisition of
understanding and
learning
OS & OL

Group
Discussions
and
individual
participation

C*
Group
participation,
case discussion

At the end of the
training to assess
the acquisition of
understanding and
learning
OS & OL

C*
Group exercises
and
dramatization of
the thinking
routines and
other strategies

At the end of the
training to assess
the acquisition of
understanding and
learning
OS

C*
Group exercises
and
dramatization
on
documentation
by using
thinking
routines and
other strategies

At the end of the
training to assess
the acquisition of
understanding and
learning
OS & OL

The online version of
this article can be
found at:

Lectures on the basics of
the brain and the theories
of neurodevelopment and
neurophysiology apply to
Teachers to connect cognition,
teaching and learning
neuroscience, and educational
-Brain Plasticity,
practice, especially involving
-Emotions and education,
learning and teaching
-Education GPS
-Significant learning
1-2 M* Brain mind and Education
The history and literature
on life with purpose and
Teachers to differentiate between meaning, theories and
extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, research on the
as well as its benefits and
importance
importance as part of the
of the development of
development of a balance
individuals with intrinsic
individual
motivation
1-3 M* Intrinsic motivation

1-4

The power of making
M* thinking visible

1-5 M* Documentation

The main goal of this course is for
you to learn about the definition,
the history, the benefits and the
fundamentals of documentation
as well as the VESS approach to
documentation. Also on how to
document.

1 hours lecture.
Within the first 4
weeks since hiring

Power points,
Articles,
books, Videos, online
platforms

Power points,
Articles,
books, Videos, online
platforms. The
training includes
presentations,
interactive
workshops, small
group
sessions and visits to
The Power of Making
classrooms featuring
Thinking Visible Institute is
students and
teachers
an opportunity for teachers
and school administrators
engaged with
to engage with the ideas
thinking
associated with Visible
routines and other
Thinking, Culture of
strategies to
Thinking, Artful Thinking
5 Hours session within encourage
and TfU from Project Zero the first 4 weeks after thinking in the
hiring
classroom.
at Harvard University.
The trainee will learn to
Power points,
use the different strategies
and tools for
Articles,
documentation and to
books, Videos, online
promote thinking; Thinking
platforms. The
routines
training includes
,The Theory of Constraints,
presentations,
the Thinking Keys and
interactive
workshops, small
the use of thinking and
concept maps which are
group sessions and
not only thinking provokers
visits to classrooms
but great organizers to
featuring students
facilitate the
and teachers
documentation of making 3 Hours session within engaged with
thinking and learning
the first 4 weeks after documentation in the
visible
hiring
classroom.
Participants will hear from
colleagues and researchers
as to the Power of Making
Thinking Visible through
documentation, Thinking
routines, concept maps and
the use of the language of
thinking in early childhood
settings.

The main goal is for the teachers
to learn how to further
ideas about thinking routines and
other cultural forces to create a
classroom atmosphere were
students are able to develop and
use thinking skills. Teachers will
also learn how a culture of
thinking is important at the level
of teachers as well as students.

2 hours lecture.
Within the first 4
weeks since hiring

DOI:
10.1177/17456916124
47308
Perspectives on
Psychological Science
2012 7: 352
Mary Helen
Immordino-Yang,
Joanna A.
Christodoulou and
Vanessa Singh
Rest Is Not Idleness :
Implications of the
Brain's Default Mode
for Human
Development and
Power points,
Education
Articles,
Chapter 4
books, Videos, online
The Role of Emotion
platforms
and Skilled

Man's Search for
Meaning is a 1946
book by Viktor Frankl
Drive is a 2009 nonfiction book by Daniel
Pink.

Making Thinking
Visible:
Book by Ron Ritchhar
http://www.oldpz.gse.harvard.edu/v
t/VisibleThinking_ht
ml_files/VisibleThink
ing1.html

Ongoing
Formative
assessment
to follow up
on progress
Group
https://www.youtub Discussions
e.com/watch?v=AQTY and
cZf40ag
individual
participation

http://www.bcsc.k12.
in.us/cms/lib/IN0100
0842/Centricity/Dom
ain/1703/Reggio_Emil
ia_Approach.pdf
http://www.reggioall
iance.org/downloads
/reflectionsfyfe:gand
inikaminsky.pdf

Ongoing
Formative
assessment
to follow up
on progress
Group
Discussions
and
individual
participation