Challenging Learning

James Nottinghamwww.challenginglearning.com

Website

www.challenginglearning.com

Email

james@jnpartnership.com

Other Sites

www.community-designed-education.com

www.carol-dweck.co.uk

www.p4c.com

My book: Challenging Learning

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What do these 3 have in common?

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Challenge and Learning

CA

SA

PA

Current Ability

Subconscious Ability

Potential Ability

Learning Zone

Practice Zone

Too Easy

Too Hard

85Time

Per

form

ance

The Teaching Target Model (TTM)

CA

SA

PA

Learning Zone

Practice Zone

Philosophy for Children (P4C) in nursery

An Ethos for Learning

Not all of our questions answered …

… but all of our answers questioned

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Pick a concept, any concept

Foreign Fairness

CultureTourism

HomeTelling lies

Language History

NamesNumber

FriendsThinking

BelongingKnowledge

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EY and Primary Concepts

MeFairness

RealLanguage

HomeTelling lies

Growth/Change Same

PetsEmotions

FriendsThinking

Being niceDreaming

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Secondary Concepts

HeroLies

History Sport

IdentityCulture

Bullying Real

FairKnowledge

Language Test

Drama Tourism

PoemMusic

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If A = B then

Does B = A?

Foreign Different

Different Foreign

For example …

Wobblers (If A = B)

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Year 5 Concept - Tourism

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If A = B then

If it’s NOT B = NOT A?

Friend Trust

Don’t trust Not friends?

For example …

Wobblers (If NOT A ?)

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War

Sport

1 2 3 4

Coming out of the Pit with Venn Diagrams

Just because you can’t define something, doesn’t mean you won’t recognise it when you see it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ranking to identify best answers

Play together

Know each other well

Understand each other

Like each other

Keep secrets

Trust each other

Examples from 7 year olds Examples from 11 year olds Examples from 14 year olds

Trying my best Always trying hard Persevering

Being willing to be helped Being open to advice Being open to support and coaching

Concentrating hard Thinking carefully Being focused on what’s relevant

Having a go Being willing to try new things Being open to new experiences

Not giving up Never-say-die attitude Resilience

Not worrying about mistakes Learning from mistakes Treating mistakes as useful feedback

Asking questions Being curious Enquiring and being curious

A selection of attitudes

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Learning Intentions

Lesson 1• To be curious about the rivers and the impact of them on our lives (A)• Ask relevant questions about rivers (S)

First 5 minutes – get pupils into the pite.g. Does a river have to have water in it?

15 minutes research about rivers10 minutes in groups to collect questions, and group them into categories5 minutes to decide which is the best question and why10 minutes sharing with whole class5 minutes planning for next lesson

The ASK model – Attitudes, Skills & Knowledge

S

A K

Lesson 3Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Learning Intentions

Lesson 3• Use 3 different types of thinking to ask and then answer questions about rivers (S)• Check your answers firstly with another group then in the topic books or online (K)

Select 3 skills from:• Classify• Define• Estimate• Give Reasons• Predict• Rank• Sequence

ANALYSE

ANTICIPATE

APPLY

CAUSAL-LINK

CHOOSE

CLASSIFY

COMPARE

CONNECT

CONTRAST

DECIDE

DEFINE

DESCRIBE

DETERMINE

DISCUSS

ELABORATE

ESTIMATE

EVALUATE

EXEMPLIFY

EXPLORE

GENERALISE

GIVE EXAMPLES

GIVE REASONS

GROUP

HYPOTHESISE

IDENTIFY

INFER

INTERPRET

ORGANISE

PARAPHRASE

PREDICT

QUESTION

RANK

REPRESENT

RESPOND

SEQUENCE

SIMPLIFY

SHOW HOW

SOLVE

SORT

SUMMARISE

SUPPORT

TEST

VERIFY

VISUALISE

A selection of thinking skills

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