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CTSN Training Partnership SDS Seminar: How Children Learn

Session Objectives To question our notion of what constitutes ‘learning’ To begin to consider the pupil perspective on learning To contextualise our own thinking about learning within the wider education community To have initiated the exploration of learning within the subject dimension

Standards 2 Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and how this impacts on teaching.

What ‘counts’ as learning?

To learn is ‘any lasting change in behaviour resulting from experience’

What do we learn at school? We are looking at learning where the BOUNDRIES are set by the school context

What we know about learning: Personal reflection: What helps you / prevents you from learning? Paired discussion: In lessons you have seen, how did you know that learning was taking place?

What do we learn at school? Knowledge Skills Concepts Processes Procedures Routines

What other people can suggest about learning Froebel and Montessori pg Piaget pg. 54 Bruner pg Vygotsky pg. 55 Bloom pg Kolb - 56

Lesson Observation: what does learning look like? What challenges do the learners face? How can you tell learning is taking place? What strategies to support learning does the teacher employ? Can you detect anything about the teacher that might reveal how they think about how children learn?

James Woodcock

The Subject Dimension Working in pairs or alone: What challenges does the learner face in accessing your subject’s core concepts in your subject? What could a teacher do to help facilitate the learning?

For next session: Trainees to choose a concept and observe a lesson about it. Bring your notes to next session for discussion Complete reading and be prepared to share any key issues next session Bring a Scheme of Work that you are/will be teaching from to the next session

Prompts for Professional Development Record What helps me to learn? How might my school/life experience influence how I teach? Do I need to think outside my comfort zone: in what ways? What precisely do I want my students to learn? How might I be able to tell if learning is taking place in these early weeks?