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The title for this post, refers to the students first two weeks of our project based learning course, where students analyse: What is learning? What helps us learn? What skills and dispositions do we need to be effective learners? How does a project based approach learning help us? To begin with, we asked students, what skills are needed for;My last post focused on becoming a better teacher and how we can undertake our own professional development by dipping into the wealth of great books at hand for teachers. I wanted to create a simple list of what I view in my humble opinion as the best books for teachers out there in the market. I thought of two key factors – ‘philosophy’ and ‘practicality’.
The Top Five Essential Reads for Teachers « huntingenglish
I have been reading a lot over the last few years. Most of it has been about developing my teaching or more specifically Learning to Learn. When I first got my job as the developer of L2L at my school, I was directed towards the Campaign for Learning by various people.
My Learning Journey: Developing Curiosity - The 'Curiosity Campaign'
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We know that the brain has a hugely important role to play in the students' learning that goes on in our classrooms. However, surprisingly, scientists still know relatively little about the workings of the brain, and most of what we do know has been discovered only in the last 15 years. Our challenge is to ensure that what we do know about the brain is translated into classroom practice and used to maximise student learning – this is the idea at the heart of Accelerated Learning. This unit introduces some of the principles of accelerated learning and explores techniques for you to try out with your pupils. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>SAGE Publications Ltd: Assessment and Learning: Second Edition: John Gardner: 9780857023834
Assessment and Learning places learning at the centre of our concerns and explicitly underscores the importance of assessment in that learning. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of assessment that is used to support learning, practice-based theory on assessment for learning, and formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners. With a strong list of existing and new contributors, this second edition has been updated to include the latest work on assessment. Readers will find research-informed insights from a wide variety of international contexts. It features: - New chapters on e-assessment, the learner's perspective on assessment and learning and the influence of assessment on how we value learning