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Building Learning Power with Guy Claxton

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Prepare students for the critical tests of life and for a life of tests
Lead the learning revolution - keep schooling in-step with society
Infuse BLP into your classroom and curriculum


Guy Claxton Joint director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester, Guy's practical ideas about enhancing students' capacity to learn have influenced educational practice in many countries. An acclaimed writer, his books include Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, Building Learning Power and What’s the Point of School?

The brain is born ready, willing and limitless


Strengthen students’ abilities to be:

Effective decision makers

Skilful problem solvers

Powerful learners

Their own teachers

Expand your students’ learning capacities

Flex pupils’ learning muscles every day, every lesson:

Inquisition

Rational thinking

Sociability

Resilience...

10 practical ways to create a BLP school - from seeds to success


Create a classroom climate where questioning is king

Build a collaborative staff community and monitor its vital signs

Create a common language of ‘learnish’ in the curriculum

Get parents involved - how to send ideas home

Build on BLP case study outcomes:


Daily and exceptional job satisfaction

High staff involvement in school pedagogies

Harnessing student voice

Transformation of student behaviour

Exam result success

Going beyond ‘hints and tips’

Tools to become a learning power coach

Dual focus to involve lesson content and learning power

‘Wild topics’ that engage students

‘Potentiating’ activities to work learning muscles

Winning classroom routines:

  • See Think Wonder (STW)
  • Independent Collaborative Teacher (ICT)
  • Plus Minus Interesting (PMI)
  • Spider and Wider (S&W)

 

 
£ 349.00 +VAT
 
 
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In-School Training

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Course Dates

  • 3rd July 2012
    London

    Almost Full

  • 4th July 2012
    Birmingham
  • 5th July 2012
    Manchester
  • 12th March 2013
    Manchester
  • 13th March 2013
    Birmingham
  • 14th March 2013
    Cardiff
  • 15th March 2013
    London
 
 
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