21 st century learning – capturing hearts and minds

1. 21st century learning – capturing hearts and minds Making learning the drug of choice for the 21st century….

2. What is the elephant ?

3. Addicted to praise – wafer thin confidence - Dweck 50% employers are worried about literacy and numeracy but 70% are more worried about lack of emotional intelligence ‘Spoonfed students can’t cope with degrees’ Telegraph The illiterate of the 21st century are those that can’t learn how to learn More suicides, more depression, more self harm ‘Affluenza’ If you have to try hard you must be thick!

4. Wanted: Resilient, independent learners who have flexible skills and competencies; who can work well in teams and lead themselves and others to perform up to and beyond their potential. For the 21st century Learning School

5. The zippies are here – a new generation in the emerging world • Young Indian 15-25 years old • Cool, confident and creative • Oozes attitude and charm, ambition and aspiration – shuns fear • Outward looking, destination driven • Competing for global careers against our children PS 54% of India’s population is under 25 ‘From The World is Flat’ - Friedman

6. The personalised learning experience 2020? My name is Jo and I am 13. I follow my own personal timetable that I have created for myself after following a competency based course for the past year……… What is most important? High IQ? High effort?

7. Learning to learn – what is it? Excellence is not an art but a habit - Aristotle • Developing a set of skills and habits that facilitate a self-awareness and resilience in learning. • Being able to transfer skills and learning from one context to another • Understanding how you as an individual learn best and knowing how to use this effectively HOW? Using metacognition(thinking about learning) to develop the above as part of the school experience

8. Learning to Learn – across the curriculum • Students know their learning profile • Lessons planned using a variety of styles of learning • Students teaching each other • Formative assessment used • Plenary that focuses on how you learn • More questions. Open questions • Students encouraged to ask questions Thinking and reflection time every day - metacognition

9. Assessment for Learning – formative assessment • Self-peer assessment • Sharing the criteria • Focussed marking • Tracking using data and setting regular targets • Students are in control of their progress Learning to learn Formative assessment EQ

10. Good Fount of knowledge ‘filling empty vessels’ Didactic – teacher guides students Teacher questions Outcome focus Intelligence is fixed Teacher talks Outstanding Facilitator Student centred activity Students construct questions/challenges Students co-designers Students judge success, self correcting Creative opportunities Success and failure equal partners for learning Reflection/ metacognition Develops habits/dispositions Language for learning Teachers - what’s the difference?

11. Cultivate intelligence through mastery of emotions Nurture the thinking that develops this view of learning SEAL

12. To encourage performance – what would you do? Tell him you still think he is brilliant Tell him he didn’t get it because he didn’t deserve it Tell him worse things happen at sea and it’s not the end of the world Tell him he has such talent that he definitely has a fantastic future Tell him he was robbed Cultivating resilience?

13. Intelligence is fixed: You need to be able to do it quickly and easily to prove you are clever You need to out perform others – always Only thick people have to work hard to get good grades Avoid: having to try too hard, high performing peers, setbacks and mistakes Intelligence is cultivated through learning: You can become more clever the harder you try It’s smart to engage fully with tasks, apply skills, make mistakes, make a big effort Its better to avoid easy stuff – the harder and more impossible, the more it will grow your brain Feeling unsure and out of your comfort zone is exciting You believe…. OR

14. EQ - A different kind of intelligence... EQ is common sense but not common practice • Persistence/resilience • Deferred gratification • Mood control • Stress management • Empathy • Impulse control • Optimism • Self-management The 5 Rs: RESILIENCE, READINESS, RESPONSIBILITY, RESOURCEFULNESS, REFLECTION

15. How does EQ create great teachers? • Self aware/self disciplined • Takes feedback, takes responsibility • Learns from mistakes – resilient • Creative – open to new ideas • Reflective • Curious about learning • Uses variety, humour, novelty shamelessly • Persistent - knows they can cultivate intelligence • Self belief - they have a mission! Easier to teach stuff than ways of thinking - Gardner

16. 2020 Vision Personalised Learning – Ofsted • Flexible curriculum • Learning to learn – non cognitive skills • Assessment for learning/data • ICT integral • Testing when ready • Navigating through more options 14-19 • Student ownership of learning • Parental engagement

17. The Campaign for Learning Learning to Learn SOSSustaining the learning focus • Learning Review - 5 Rs • Develop independent learners • Behaviour for learning • Joining up L2L/SEAL/AfL inside the new KS3 curriculum • Implementing brain friendly learning • A competency curriculum - PLTS

18. We are entering the most dramatic paradigm shift in education history - Mark Treadwell Campaign for Learning