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Teaching is the canny art of
intellectual temptation
- Jerome Bruner
Teaching involves putting children into
difficult situations out of which they can
only get by thinking
John Heron
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What are the characteristics of these children?
curious
interested
adventurous
courageous
good skills
good learners?
self-motivated
self-managed
self-directed
self-regulated
autonomous
independent
lifelong learners?
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Are the children you teach like this?
Why do you think it is that the longer children
stay in school
- the less curious they are?
- the less questions they ask?
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Richard Bawden
Write down three things that you know
Now write down for each one, how you know that you know
What we know for sure is really trivial
What we know is what we experience, all else is belief
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The most motivating learning .....
..... is always self-regulated
SRL self-regulated learning
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The self-regulated learner
1) Believes that learning is possible for them
2) Has the skills necessary to learn effectively
3) Learns by experience, from and with other students, at their own pace, following their own leads, in a well well scaffolded environment where they feel safe to make mistakes
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In an SRL Classroom what would children need to be able to do?
They would need to have all the skills of Self-Regulated Learning they would need excellent learning skills
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Including the skills of how to .....
set learning goals
plan out their study
ask good questions
generate motivation and perseverance
process information effectively sift, sort, compare, verify, try out different ways to learn
work to deadlines
reflect on their achievement both process and content
make changes to their learning processes where necessary
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These are all skills learning skills
Do your students have all these skills?
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They know how to learn but do they know how to study?
73% of university students report difficulties preparing
for an exam
most tertiary students have been found to have weak or
ineffective strategies for processing information both in
the classroom and in their own study
when making notes from lectures or from text most
students miss 60 - 70% of the key points
- good note making is positively correlated with
academic achievement
- material omitted from notes has only a 5 - 15%
chance of being recalled
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Even when they have good notes many students still have
great difficulty organising the information they have
collected.
52% admit that their notes are disorganised
61% report having trouble sequencing the ideas to make
coherent sense
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Even given well organised, well structured notes with
summaries provided:
two thirds of students at the secondary level study for
tests purely by rereading their notes
more than half of them do that reading the day before
the test or exam
around 12% of students do nothing more than recopy
their notes verbatim
50% use passive repetition of key points as their single
study technique.
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The direct teaching of learning skills is still an uncommon topic in most school programmes
Only 20% of teachers believe that teaching students how
to learn is a priority
only 17% of students report that teachers actively help
them learn or improve their study skills
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Learning Skills
Are a combination of
cognitive
metacognitive and
affective
processes, skills, techniques and strategies
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Cognitive skills - active information processing and retrieval strategies study skills
Organising, transforming and summarising information
Using structural writing planners
Timetabling and time management
Note making in class and for studying
Memory techniques
Idea generation, metaphorical thinking
Questioning
Calibrating own learning preferences
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Affective skills - enabling the student to gain some control over mood, motivation and attitude
Persistence and perseverance
Focus and concentration, overcoming distractions
Self-motivation
Mindfulness
Reducing anxiety
Delaying gratification
Managing impulsiveness and anger
Developing resilience
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Metacognitive skills monitoring the deployment of
cognitive and affective skills
Reflecting on the success of processes used, skills
practiced and the understanding and retention of
content
Being prepared to change ineffective strategies,
learn new skills
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Learning Skills in the UK
2007 DfE research - Learning Skills And the Development
of Learning Capability concluded:
The results suggest that the development of learning skills
and capabilities should be embedded in the curriculum,
as well as being taught explicitly to pupils.
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2008 QCA - A Framework of personal, learning and thinking
skills that are essential to success in learning, life and work:
Independent enquirers
Creative thinkers
Reflective learners
Team workers
Self-managers
Effective participators
2011 - QCA is disbanded and its functions absorbed by DfE
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1997 - Singapore MOE Teach Less Learn More
Remember Why We Teach more for the learner to excite passion for understanding for the test of life
and less to rush through the syllabus out of fear of failure to dispense information only for a life of tests
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Learning Skills - in the USA
EIC - Elementary Integrated Curriculum Framework core curriculum adopted by 47 states (2011)
Academic Success Skills: Collaboration Effort/Motivation/Persistence Intellectual Risk Taking Metacognition
Creative Thinking Skills: Elaboration Flexibility Fluency Originality
Critical Thinking Skills: Analysis Evaluation Synthesis
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NZ Curriculum Five Key Competencies
Thinking
Using language, symbols and text
Managing self
Relating to others
Participating and contributing
Poland, Belgium, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Slovak Republic,
Spain, and Turkey all have developed similar necessary
learning skill sets for students
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Learning Skills - in the IB The Learner Profile all IB learners strive to be:
Inquirers
Knowledgeable
Thinkers
Communicators
Principled
Open-minded
Caring
Risk-takers
Balanced
Reflective
Approaches To Learning - 7 Learning Skill clusters (potential)
Communication &
Collaboration
Self Management
Information & Media
Literacies
Critical Thinking
Creativity & Innovation
Reflection
Transfer
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ATL Skills
Cog groupings
Affect Groupings
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Some facts:
6 billion cell phones in the world
85% of new phones are web enabled
2 billion broadband subscriptions
255 million websites
150 million blogs
8 trillion text messages sent in 2011
107 trillion emails 89% of which are spam
Youtube 48 hours uploaded every minute
3 billion videos viewed every day
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A revolution in teaching and learning is now possible in IB schools due to:
A focus on the teaching of the skills of effective learning
through ATL
The proliferation of high quality school subject based
websites
The ubiquity of internet accessible devices
The availability of high speed broadband
The high level of comfort your children have with the
digital world
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What if .....
every piece of subject matter was available to your students on the internet, and
they all had access to internet linked tablets, and
they all had access to high speed broadband all day....
What would teaching look like then?
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In an SRL classroom teachers...
Teach learning skills not content
Pose questions, outline problems, set challenges,
give clear measurable objectives
Put students into small groups
Enable them to connect to the best subject based
internet resources
Facilitate their journey
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SRL Exercise 1 1) Divide into subject groups
2) Form intra-subject groups of 3 people per group with one internet connected device per group
3) Connect to www.taolearn.com/students.php
4) Find a link to a website in your subject that none of you are familiar with
5) Evaluate that site for:
structure how is the information presented?
breadth what range of topics are presented?
depth what levels of schooling are covered?
6) Move on to another site
7) Evaluate 3 new sites
http://www.taolearn.com/students.php
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If the aim is to develop lifelong learners this can now be achieved by:
Focusing on teaching ATL skills rather than subject content
Allowing students to find the required subject content themselves using good quality internet resources
Enabling self-regulated learning to occur in the classroom
Using self-assessment of content, process and ATL skill competency to develop full metacognitive awareness
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But of course:
Students differ in the degree of self-regulation
they have the skills for
Teachers differ in the degree of self-regulation
they allow in the classroom
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Regulatory styles of Students
High self-regulation skills
- student manages all aspects of own learning
- student thinking at a maximum, teacher involvement at a minimum
Intermediate self-regulation skills
- student manages much of own learning, asks the teacher questions, gets help occasionally
- students thinking engaged, teacher as guide and support
Low self-regulation skills
- student totally passive, needs to be taught everything, have all questions answered, helped through every step of learning
- student thinking at a minimum, teacher totally involved in all phases of student learning
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Regulatory styles of Teachers
Strong teacher regulation
- teacher controls all information, answers all questions
- student thinking at a minimum, teacher as mental crutch
Shared regulation
- teacher provides skills training, problem statements, concepts
- students actively engage in finding information, solving problems
- students thinking engaged, teacher as guide and support
Loose teacher regulation
- teachers only functions are supplying the learning objectives and assessing their achievement
- student thinking at a maximum, teacher engagement at a minimum
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Degree of Teacher Regulation of Learning
Strong
Shared
Loose
High Destructive friction
Destructive friction Congruence
Intermediate Destructive friction
Congruence Constructive friction
Low Congruence Constructive friction
Destructive friction
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Shared Style - with provision
1) Assess for ability to self-regulate learning
2) Allow for 3 levels of self-regulation in every class
3) Groups of 3-4 with one computer + high speed internet
4) Work directly with the low SRL students teaching them
the appropriate learning skills
5) Help the intermediate SRL students where required
6) Allow the high self-regulated learners to work
independently
7) Pose problems, set challenges, give measurable
objectives, help them to ask the right questions
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Must have provision for the highly self-regulated learner at all levels for all students to aspire to
What percentage of your lessons are available to
students as well structured and supported, fully
independent learning experiences?
Are you aware of all the websites that have resources for your subject?
Take a look at:
www.marktreadwell.com/Digital_Resources
www.marktreadwell.com/Image_Libraries
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The self-regulated learner
Has developed meta-cognitive awareness
is aware that there are many different ways to process information and learn
treats any failure to understand as a failure of process not a failure of the individual
is prepared to try different ways until s/he can understand
has access to resources
learns cooperatively and collaboratively
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Student Self Regulation
high low
Self initiated
task statements
22 per hour 11 per hour
Questions asked
by students
questioning peers
half the time
mostly asking the
teacher
Task directed
statements
from teacher
2
- encouraging the
childs own thinking
and planning
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- doing the thinking
and planning for
the child
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Using Think-Alouds
A) I see ...... I imagine .... I think ....... I feel ........ I know ...... I am trying to ........ B) - listening for learning and thinking strategies - asking process focused questions - what are your assumptions? - what are you thinking? - how are you feeling? - what could you try to get past this block? - could you maybe try ....? - not providing answers
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How do you assess learning skills?
By the successful understanding, retention, transfer and recall of content?
But does the successful passing of content based tests give any indication of the effectiveness or efficiency of the learning skills employed?
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Framework of Skills Development
Level 1
Novice
- observation
Level 2
Learner
- emulation
Level 3
Practitioner
- demonstration
Level 4
Expert
- self-regulation
Observes others performing tasks and using the skill High levels of scaffolding from teacher needed
Copies others performance of the skill Medium level of scaffolding needed
Can demonstrate the skill on demand Minimal teacher scaffolding required
Can perform the skill without thinking Can teach others the skill No teacher scaffolding required
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Developing Metacognitive Awareness
Self-assessment by reflection on todays lessons:
Content understanding of subject matter
- what dont I understand yet?
- what questions do I have?
Learning Skills progress towards mastery
- what skills have I practiced today
- how competent do I now feel in each skill
Strategies effectiveness of learning/teaching strategies
- what strategies have I used or been exposed to today?
- how effective was each one for me?
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1999 Netherlands Project - Implementation
Nationwide innovation in secondary education aimed
at developing self-regulated learners:
1) Students becoming owners of the learning process
2) Learning as the active construction of knowledge
3) Students learning in collaboration with other
students
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2010 Netherlands Project - Review
Conclusions:
1) Good PD not available to support teachers in
developing SRL
2) Teachers found it very difficult to stop
teaching
3) Transmission teaching still rules
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To develop Self-Regulated learners
Teachers must learn how to stop teaching and
allow learning to take place
Only by being allowed to practice the skills of
self-regulated learning will students become
self-regulated learners.
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Three key strands of PD for SRL
Teach the teachers:
how to teach Learning Skills within the context of
their subject based lessons
how to turn the classroom experience into guided
inquiry learning
how to help students to self-assess their content,
skills and strategy use through reflection