Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools

by James; Mary

• ISBN13: 9780415400268
• ISBN10: 0415400260
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A collection of resources designed to help teachers develop their classroom practice and optimise learning, including practical activities for teachers and examples of how these materials have been used successfully in schools.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction - about this book	p. 1
Learning how to learn through assessment for learning	p. 1
How this book is organised	p. 2
Getting started	p. 4
Overview	p. 4
Background reading	p. 7
Assessment for learning: what it is and what research says about it	p. 7
Introducing the ideas and deciding a direction for development	p. 14
Learning how to learn through assessment for learning (presentation)	p. 15
Planning for learning how to learn through assessment for learning (audit and action-planning activity)	p. 19
Staff questionnaire A: Classroom assessment practices and values (self-evaluation instrument)	p. 20
Going deeper	p. 25
Overview	p. 25
The workshops	p. 25
Materials	p. 27
Developing classroom talk through questioning	p. 27
Feedback	p. 34
Sharing criteria with learners	p. 39
Self-assessment and peer-assessment	p. 44
How people learn	p. 50
Learning across and beyond the school	p. 58
Overview	p. 58
Dimensions of teachers' learning	p. 59
Dimensions of school managenaent systems	p. 61
Reflecting on the survey data	p. 64
Exploring school cultures	p. 64
A culture of shared leadership	p. 65
Exploring teaching	p. 65
Adapting tools	p. 66
Materials	p. 67
Staff questionnaire B: Professional learning practices and values	p. 68
Staff questionnaire C: School management practices and systems	p. 73
Reflecting on the survey data	p. 77
Snowballing: indicators of an LHTL culture	p. 80
The matrix	p. 82
Through the eyes of the NQT	p. 83
Critical incident analysis	p. 85
Leadership density analysis	p. 86
Leadership tasks	p. 90
Peer observation	p. 92
Recasting outcomes	p. 93
Network-mapping	p. 94
Form for generating descriptive analysis of network maps	p. 97
Developing and sharing practice	p. 99
Developing AfL practice	p. 99
'Traffic lights'	p. 99
Sharing AfL practice	p. 101
Pupil conferences	p. 101
Appendix	p. 103
About the Learning How to Learn project	p. 103
Resources on the project website	p. 104
Index	p. 106
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