century learning –
capturing hearts and minds
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Making learning the drug of
choice for the 21st
century….
What is the elephant ?
50% employers are worried about
literacy and numeracy but 70%
are more worried about lack of
emotional intelligence
Addicted to praise
– wafer thin
confidence - Dweck
‘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!
For the 21st century
Learning School
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.
The zippies are here – a new
generation in the emerging world
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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
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?
Learning to learn – what is it?
Excellence is not an art but a habit - Aristotle
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Developing a set of skills and habits that facilitate a selfawareness 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
Learning to Learn – across the
curriculum
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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
Assessment for Learning –
formative assessment
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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
EQ
Formative
assessment
Teachers - what’s the difference?
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
Cultivate intelligence
through mastery of
emotions
Nurture the thinking that develops
this view of learning
SEAL
Cultivating resilience?
To encourage performance –
what would you do?
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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
You believe….
Intelligence is fixed:
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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:
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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
EQ - A different kind of
intelligence...EQ is common sense
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Persistence/resilience
Deferred gratification
Mood control
Stress management
Empathy
Impulse control
Optimism
Self-management
but not common practice
The 5 Rs:
RESILIENCE, READINESS, RESPONSIBILITY, RESOURCEFULNESS, REFLECTION
How does EQ create great
teachers?
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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
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
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The Campaign for Learning
Learning to Learn SOS
Sustaining 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
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We are entering the most
dramatic paradigm shift in
education history - Mark Treadwell
Campaign
for Learning