Thursday, 15 September 2011

How Children Learn Session 1 (15-09-11)

- Guy Claxton

Inclusion and Language: think about different ways of saying things in order to include everyone in the room (or not exclude children).

How you position yourself as a practitioner (Teacher - Knowledge - Children / Teacher + Children - Knowledge).

Exchange thought-shower sheets between groups to promote discussion and sharing thoughts rather than pooling ideas on the whiteboard. Keeps kids on task, focused rather than excluding kids through poor handwriting, because they are far from te whiteboard, they're bored etc).

Encourage questions that lead to inquiry rather than control.

Manage learning and managing behaviour takes a back seat.

During communicative, group activities: listen and analyze, engage with groups, prompting thoughts, questioning rather than floating around merely crediting them.

Kids have been compatmentalized along a spectrum (Gifted and Talented, SEN). All can be included under the term 'Personalised Learning'.

In NQT year will be working to new standards- check Teaching Folder for new standards.

Theories of Learning (see lecture sheets): Behaviourism, Constructivism, Social Constructivism.

Constructivism (Dewey, Piaget) is predicated on 5 points:
Emotional Response
Definition of problem
Formation of hypothesis
Testing
Application

Social Constructivism (Vygotsky + Bruner)
Dealing with AfL, Pupil Learning, Peer-to-peer and tying in with the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).

Read page 16 of handbook

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