What do you think?

• ‘When you educate someone, you are changing their brain. That is what education is for.’

• ‘Children don’t realise very often that they’re in control of building their own brain’

TES 1.3.13 Dr P Howard Jones

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Outstanding Learners

Jackie Beere Advanced Skills Teacher

Author, Former HeadteacherSchool Improvement Partner

Building the ambition…..

Check yourself out

• Mood• Energy• Open-minded• Brave

M?

What is YOUR default setting?

METACOGNITION Thinking on purpose

Doesn’t it feel great to be so successful!?

When I keep

falling over, I just

laugh!

I ask loads of questionsI’ll eat

anything

I try out lots of

different words and

sounds

All children have the motivation to learn?

I’m never ever going to give up learning to walk

I like everyone I meet!

I LOVE a challenge

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Default settings = habits= ‘typicality’?

What does an outstanding ‘learner’ do?

What % of your pupils?

What % of your teachers?

How do you get more of it……on purpose….

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When observing lessons, you may find the following prompts helpful.

Are pupils working independently? Do they know how to choose to challenge themselves? Do they find it difficult to make choices? Do they respond well to feedback?How well do pupils collaborate with others?Are reading, writing, speaking skills a high priority for pupils and teachersDo pupils take the initiative and take risks?

Are pupils developing habits of good learning?

What are they? TYPICALITY

How do you see it?

You will always prove yourself right

Are you a success?

Limiting beliefs are hard to change….

‘Gap’ pupils need to make excellent

progress‘Able’ children

need to be challenged

(c) Jackie BeereLeadership roles in the classroom

Intervening, anticipating, challenging

HIGH EXPECTATIONS

Primitive

Emotional

Thinkingt

Novelty/surpriseHumourMusicRhythm/rhymeLoveMysteryStoriesPassion!

EvaluationReflectionCreativityAnalysis

FearAngerThreatAnxiety

Learners who know how to build their brain

MAKE IT REAL!

LEARNING TO LEARN

TAs as the MAGIC learning coach

Fixed Growth

Look clever at all costs Learn at all costs

When responding to setbacks, hide mistakes and deficiencies

When responding to setbacks, confront and

learn from mistakes and deficiencies

It should come naturally

Work hard, effort is key

• Give ‘tough love’ feedback• Reward EFFORT• Always praise learning from mistakes • Discuss and debate the learning journey• Encourage review and reflection

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No pearls without GRIT

Growth mindset – Resilience –

In(ter)dependence – Thinking on purpose

What learning experiences in EYFS will nurture the best learning habits?

TeachingReflection on the learning

journey/processChoiceConnecting with their worldWorking in the ‘challenge zone’Feedback that elicits a responseModelling mistakes as learning

experiencesEncouraging and rewarding questions Using coaching questions for feedbackPeer learningSelf assessment and reviewPeer assessment/critiqueLanguage for learningRewarding EFFORT

CurriculumCollaborative ?Co-designed?Strong social context?Cross curricular?Modular?Tentative? (Community of

enquiry)

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Lessons for learning

Putting it all into practice for outstanding learning

Prompt ,punctualand purposeful from the moment they enter your classroom

THUNKS - What colour is Tuesday? What does sadness taste like? Where does the sky end? Can you hear someone think?

Priming the brain

Awright bro’. Howsya doing?

Good morning, how are you today?

What are we learning for?

To discover some activities that will create outstanding learning SO THAT I can

Adapt and use the ideas in my own teaching tomorrowStuck?

Learning strategies?

WAGOLL

Celebrate the struggle of the learning journeyGrowthmindset

Learning is hard, sometimes scary,frustrating, confusing, impossible,fascinating, invisible but creates intrinsic satisfactionthat is addictive…Create learning addicts!

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LearningKnowledge

What is learning?

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Engaging activities for independent learning

Choice – challenge – collaboration-critical thinking – communication

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Standing back and watching them learn – intervening with impact especially with vulnerable learners

MAGIC HABITS POP UP SHOP ACTIVITY

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Choose 5 tasks

Plan the Wedding. Choose your tasks

10. Create your own task – check it out with your teacher

1. Write a script f or your wedding

8. Design a wedding cake

9. Plan a f abulous honeymoon for af ter the wedding

4. Design a menu f or the wedding meal

5. Create the costumes for the wedding

6. Choose the flowers f or the wedding

2. Create some music f or the wedding

7. Find a lovely place to have a wedding

3. Choose transport

CHOICE with a WAGOLL

Dish the DIRT Dedicated improvement and

reflection timePupils must respond to feedback

PEER CRITIQUE

Teach them to take feedback and RESPOND

Children are interactive with their work - GREEN PEN, HIGHLIGHTER, RE-DRAFTINGCALL OUTS, EDITING

Reflecting on the learning?

What do we need for the next part of the journey?

Effective feedback should:• focus on the learning objectives, outcome and/or success

criteria; (WAGOLL?)

• stimulate the correction of errors or improvement of a piece of work; scaffold or support pupils’ next steps;

• provide opportunities for pupils to think things through for themselves; and RESPOND

Focus on EFFORT ,PROGRESS and PROCESS

What do you need to do next to make progress? NOW DO IT!......... What do you need to do next? NOW DO IT!

Learning outcome

Progress over time

Attitudes,behaviours, outcomes

Mood, habits, mindsets, skills

Thoughts and ideas

Beliefs and values© Jackie Beere Associates

Visible

Invisible

7 MINDSETS for best teachers

• Self Evaluate• Believe you can make a difference• Learning about learning• Expect more of your pupils• Feedback is the breakfast of champions• Language for learning• Collaborate to grow

Lessons in emotional intelligence

• Empathy• Optimism• Self awareness• Willpower• Resilience• Stress management• MAGIC HABITS

Think buttons

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Find your hero

Describe yourself as the super

hero

Step into the zone

Feel it, see it, hear it .

BE it

ACTING AS IF…

Action PlanWhat will you keep, what will you grow – is there anything you need to change?

LOVE it?BAG it?BIN it?

After break we will share ideas and questions

Reading and resources

Thanks for listening

By Jackie Beere:

The Perfect Ofsted Lesson The Perfect Ofsted InspectionThe Perfect Teacher CoachThe KS3 Learner’s ToolkitThe Primary Learner’s Toolkit

Mindset – Carol DweckVisible learning – John HattieThe Teacher’s Toolkit – Paul GinnisInspirational Teaching – Will Ryan

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