Educating Girls: Teaching Approaches to Helping Girls Thrive
Girls' Day School Trust
  • Start Date: 20 Jan, 2020
  • 4 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Learn how to support girls’ academic success in school and professional success after school with this course for educators.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Learn to help young women thrive through your teaching approach


A lot of thought has been put into helping boys in the classroom, but we must not assume that teaching girls is easy. How can we help girls succeed in school and beyond? Find out with this course from the Girls’ Day School Trust, the leading group of girls’ schools in the UK.


You will learn practical ways to enhance the quality of learning for girls, examining different aspects of teaching that are ‘girl-friendly’ according to research and experience.


This course aims to start a conversation between teachers about the teaching approaches that best help girls succeed in school and beyond school.


This course is designed for anyone with a professional interest in shaping the learning experiences of girls.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

Girls' Day School Trust

The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) is the leading group of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff, and 20,000 students between the ages of three and 18. As a charity that owns and runs a network of 24 schools and two academies in England and Wales, it reinvests all its income in its schools. Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls and leads the field in a variety of ways. The number of girls studying STEM subjects and modern foreign languages, feats on the sports field, and success in exam grades and university destinations achieved are all examples of trails it blazes.

The GDST network makes all the difference to how it teaches, how it manages itself and makes plans, how much it can reinvest and how well it can help girls perform confidently on a national level as well as within their schools. The network also makes a difference to how much the GDST supports girls after they leave. No other school or group of schools has an alumnae network comparable to the size and scope of the GDST. With 67,000 members involved in a wide range of activities all over the world, GDST alumnae network members benefit from networking both socially and professionally, face to face and online.

 

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.
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