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MST-26-04 Open

Can Your Students Think Without You?

14 Nov 2026 6 hours Classes 6–8 Educators TS Narayanan Guruji Ashram, AGY, Pudupakkam (Main Hall)

About this Session

  • Reduce excessive teacher dependence.
  • Teach learners how to plan, monitor and evaluate their learning.
  • Build routines for independent problem solving.

Key Learning Areas

  • Learner autonomy
  • Metacognition
  • Scaffolding and gradual release
  • Choice and goal setting
  • Reflection and self-assessment

Professional Outcomes

  • Design tasks with productive independence
  • Use scaffolds without over-supporting
  • Teach simple metacognitive routines
  • Increase learner responsibility

Take-back to Practice

Independence Ladder: redesign one task across teacher-led, guided and independent stages.

Programme Schedule

Saturday, 14 Nov 2026
9:15 AM
Invocation & Welcome Opening, orientation and programme briefing
9:30 AM
Session 1 Understand: Learner autonomy
11:00 AM
Morning Break Refreshment break
11:15 AM
Session 2 Practice: Metacognition & Scaffolding and gradual release
12:45 PM
Lunch Lunch break
1:30 PM
Session 3 Apply: Choice and goal setting
3:00 PM
Afternoon Break Refreshment break
3:15 PM
Session 4 Create & Implement: Reflection and self-assessment
4:45 PM
Reflection & Closure Reflection, key takeaways and commitment to application

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