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Learning and Teaching

Learning and Teaching. Lower School. Professor John Hattie. A teacher’s job is not to make work easy. It is to make it difficult. If you are not challenged, you do not make mistakes. If you do not make mistakes, feedback is useless. 5-minute lesson plan. Coverage is the enemy of learning.

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Learning and Teaching

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  1. Learning and Teaching Lower School

  2. Professor John Hattie A teacher’s job is not to make work easy. It is to make it difficult. If you are not challenged, you do not make mistakes. If you do not make mistakes, feedback is useless.

  3. 5-minute lesson plan

  4. Coverage is the enemy of learning • Teaching is about explaining • Overloading info will cause confusion

  5. Tony Buzan “Use Your Perfect Memory” The brain is firstly an image processor before it is a word processor. Our memory for images is better than our memory for words.

  6. Reading grid

  7. Terminology Bingo

  8. Gapped texts (Hot Potatoes)

  9. Textivate.com

  10. Multiple intelligences Or more simply: V visual A auditory K kinaesthetic

  11. T Stockwell “The Learning Revolution” To learn anything fast and effectively you need to see it, hear it and feel it.

  12. Renee Fuller “Beyond IQ” If we insist on looking at the rainbow of intelligence through a single filter, many minds will erroneously seem devoid of light

  13. Jean Houston “Educating the Possible Human” Children can learn almost anything if they are dancing, tasting, touching, hearing, seeing and feeling information

  14. Fixed v growth mindset

  15. Encouraging growth mindset

  16. Lorayne and Lucas “The Memory Book” Learning is about seeking and securing connections…. You can remember any new piece of information if it is associated to something you already know or remember.

  17. Dylan Wiliam, AFL guru Learning is formed more by feedback than by instruction “The single most powerful modification that enhances achievement is feedback” (Hattie)

  18. Mike Hughes Trying to learn without review is like trying to fill a bath without putting the plug in.

  19. Display

  20. Extra work/question wall?

  21. The occasional gimmick

  22. Triptico

  23. St Joseph’s Primary • Next step 1, 2 or 3 • RTF (respond to focus) • Guess what I might ask you to do … • I wonder if … • I wonder why … • Question/challenge board displayed (or departmental booklets?) • Display: what we already know > what we have learned • Plenary: did you find it challenging (good!) and why? Did you notice/discover any PATTERNS?

  24. From “Active Whole Class Teaching” A good idea can often be adapted to fit any situation, any age group and any subject… look at each idea, ask yourself if it can be adapted, think freely, think widely, be brave and share your experiences with others. Robert Powell

  25. Unknown My best teacher … her teaching was characterised by a mixture of the traditional, the innovative and the idiosyncratic

  26. Oliver Wendell Holmes Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

  27. Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)

  28. It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others. Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

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