First thoughts on learning and teaching
- 1. Learning and teaching EV681/2
- 2. First thoughts on Pedagogy • What do you notice? • What are the children learning? • What similarities and differences do you see between the sequences? • What are the teachers’ roles here? Is this teaching? • So what did we say on our text wall?
- 3. Growing learners; growing teachers
- 4. Education studies • How do children learn? • What are the features of learning? • What is the adult role in learning?
- 5. When do children start being learners?
- 6. Pair-share • Think back to an experience of something you wanted to learn • What enabled you to succeed?
- 7. What helps you learn?
- 8. Characteristics of Effective Learning EYFS (2012) • Playing and Exploring - engagement o Finding out and exploring o Using what they know in their play o Being willing to have a go • Active Learning – motivation o Being involved and concentrating o Keeping on trying o Enjoying achieving what they set out to do • Creating and thinking critically – thinking o Having their own ideas o Making links o Choosing ways to do things
- 9. Assessment of learning • Learning to learn - HOW • Dispositions to learning • Well being and involvement • Development : cognitive, physical, social and emotional
- 10. Hello Jamie Watch the clip, Note down - What learning is taking place? - any characteristics of effective learning ? - How was this learning facilitated?
- 11. What she did • Exploring/experimenting/trying out/testing • Looking /touching/tasting/listening- multisensory • Comparing/classifying/making connections • Building on what she knows? • Persevering/persistence • Making decisions/choices • Concentrating • communicating
- 12. How was it facilitated? • Time • Space • Resources • Knowledge of Jamie and of child development • Planning for what comes next
- 13. you
- 14. How are you going to grow learning in the children you will teach?
- 15. EV681 To follow today: Read Alexander Ch12 ‘What’s Primary Education for?’ Scan the Stephen article (pre-course reading) if not already, ‘Pedagogy. The silent partner’ (Reading List link) In preparation for the next session: Blog post #1 and your responses to Session one
- 16. To conclude EV682 Follow up from today: • Alexander, R. (2010) ‘Childhood today’, Ch 4 in Children, their World, their education: final report from Cambridge primary Review. London: Routledge. Before the next EV682 session: • Blog post 1* and responses to session 2
Editor's Notes
- #3: Discussion following (Video ‘How learning Develops’)
- #4: This is where Sheena came in 2013
- #9: Birth to 5+ years! But true for all learners You were doing some of this Give some examples perhaps from their feedback These just as (more?) important than skills and knowledge?
- #15: The module will help you to answer this
- #17: Remind students of follow task and blog post.