Learning and teaching: all you need to know in half a day!

October 2016

Today…• The main learning and teaching approaches – what do

we know now?• Bridging the ‘knowing-doing’ gap shaped up by current

thinking and practice• Participate in cooperative and collaborative learning

Success criteria…

• Know at least 3 things you did not know before about learning and teaching

• Identify ONE thing you will change about your practice on leaving this session.

The Flipped Classroom Quiz…

What do we know now…?

Walk about talk about!

Main teaching approaches…

• Instruction• Demonstrating• Observation• Facilitating learning• Eliciting learner performance

Technologies for learning.

Cooperative Learning……..Graffiti!

Good questioning is…

• Active learning and engagement• Differentiation• Challenge and enjoyment• Deepening knowledge and understanding• Promoting reflection• Coaxing out answers

Good questioning is…• Clarification, • Elaboration, • Reflection, • Critical thinking• Feedback

Simplicity factor…

Lower order questions (remember) and higher order questions (require thinking)The best learners ask the best questions!Within the constraints of the curriculum!

The Buzz Words…• Active learning• Student engagement• Collaborative learning• Feedback• Technologies for learning• Thinking skills.

Relax – it arises as part of the natural and intuitive learning process!Younger learners do require greater planning, accuracy and precision.

Education Scotland…• Variety of teaching approaches• Student involvement• Effective questioning• Checking student understanding• Feedback techniques• Participation techniques

Shaping up sessions…

• Introduction• Main learning activity• Plenary• Summary

Clear beginning, middle and ending.

Shaping up sessions makes…

• The learning explicit• For a variety of approaches• Giving and receiving clear and regular feedback• Monitoring progress and attainment of students

The most powerful factor that moves learning forward…Feedback and feed forward.

Feedback should be like a ‘good’ murder…???

Differentiation…part of the process!So long as the student achieves the listed competencies and learning outcomes, it does not matter who taught him or her, how or when the training takes place, what resources are used or what the content material of the curriculum consists of.

How…?• Content• Level and pace• Interest• Sequence• Support• Feedback• Structure• Technologies for learning• Questioning – clarification, elaboration, reflection, critical thinking• Flipped classroom

Review and Preview

Prepare your exit pass techniques…

• Back to the success criteria!