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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
 
£ 349.00 +VAT
 
 
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Guy Claxton
 

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?

 
More courses from Guy Claxton

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)

 

 

 

Course Dates

  • 3rd July 2012
    London
  • 4th July 2012
    Birmingham
  • 5th July 2012
    Manchester
 
 
£ 349.00 +VAT
 
 
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