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TEACHING LEARNING

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TEACHING LEARNING

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    1. TEACHING & LEARNING Dialogue, Questions & Objectives Starter task: write on the pro-forma provided one crucial skill that you would like your pupils to develop that would improve their learning skills and aid progressStarter task: write on the pro-forma provided one crucial skill that you would like your pupils to develop that would improve their learning skills and aid progress

    2. Why?

    3. Teaching & Learning Focus 2009 Onward To provide a focused and sustained approach to Teaching and Learning strategies that involve and engage all members of the teaching staff to make a difference to their teaching: high profile with the aim of promoting consistent good practice. To embed Assessment for Learning in every classroom, so that formative assessment follows the acknowledged national best practice. Learning Outcomes and Success Criteria Asking Better Questions The use of formative assessment To develop and disseminate best practice through TLCs, maximise pupil progress by innovation in teaching approaches that ensure engagement, progress & productivity INSET programme Activities Days & Week T & L bulletin Taken from the initial presentation in Staff meeting June 2010Taken from the initial presentation in Staff meeting June 2010

    5. Dialogic Classrooms Research

    6. 60% of pupils in secondary schools never have a conversation with an adult whilst in school The average length of a pupil response is 5 words. Teacher input currently accounts for approximately 70% of each lesson Research Dr. Christine Harrison, Head of AfL Research Group, King’s College London

    9. Successful Independent learning depends on a number of external and internal factors. External factors involve the creation of a strong relationship between teachers and pupils and the establishment of an 'enabling environment'. Internal factors are the skills that individual pupils have to acquire. These include; Cognitive Skills such as focusing of memory and attention and problem-solving Metacognitive Skills associated with understanding how learning occurs Affective Skills related to feelings and emotions.

    12. Top tips for sharing lesson objectives & success criteria Flag up the lesson objective at the start of the lesson Make lesson objectives accessible while pupils are working Display lesson objectives and success criteria visually Vary the way that you display objectives to keep it interesting Be aware that the best time to talk about success criteria can be after pupils have undertaken a task Use mind-maps to help pupils generate success criteria....

    15. What were the benefits of independent learning for pupils? Research indicates evidence that the benefits of independent learning, include: Improved academic performance; Develops higher order thinking skills Increased motivation and confidence; Greater pupil awareness of their limitations and their ability to manage them in order to progress Enabling teachers to provide differentiated tasks for pupils Fostering social inclusion by countering alienation. Opportunity for parental engagement, PLTS integration & aspects of EI

    17. THE INTENTIONS OF ACTIVITIES WEEK Personal Learning & Thinking Skills have real value in unlocking individual learning styles and skills Developing capacity in each of the Rs is all about students making a journey: the journey from dependent learner to independent learner Challenge and competition are motivational factors that enhance engagement. Higher order thinking skills are developed more intensively through active involvement in learning rather than passive reception

    19. Final Thoughts! ‘ ‘Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand’ Confucius I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ Maya Angelou ‘I never teach my pupils; I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.’ Albert Einstein

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