First thoughts on Learning and Teaching

EV681: Pedagogy, Principles and Practice in Early Education

EV682: Contemporary issues in Teaching and Learning

• How do children learn?

• How do we know learning is taking place?

• What is the adult role in learning?

When does learning begin?

What helps you learn?

Friend helpedManual/instructions

Practised/experimented

motivated

HAD A PURPOSE

fun

interested

Characteristics of effective learningEYFS (EE 2012) Development Matters - non statutory guidance

Learning behaviours

• Playing and exploring-engagement– finding out and exploring– Using what they know in their play– being willing to have a go

• Active learning – motivation– Being involved and concentrating– Keeping on trying– Enjoying achieving what they set out to do

• Creating and thinking critically – thinking– Having their own ideas– Making links– Choosing ways to do things

Assessment of learning

• Learning to be learners

• Dispositions to learning - Well being and involvement

• Development : cognitive, physical, social and emotional

Hello Jamie

Watch the clip, Note down - What learning is taking place?- any characteristics of effective learning ?- How was this learning facilitated?

What she did• Exploring/experimenting/trying out/testing• Looking /touching/tasting/listening- multisensory• Motor control: manipulating, moving, holding, passing,

dropping, reaching, shaking• Comparing/classifying/making connections• Building on what she knows?• Persevering/persistence• Making decisions/choices• Concentrating• Communicating/listening/responding/asking

Goswami 2015

Current research from Neuroscience has highlighted that learning takes place in four ways;1. Statistical learning- visual, auditory (Piaget calls

sensory learning) Prototype/schema2. Analogy – comparisons with other types for

similarities and differences (Piaget: accommodation and assimilation- schema development)

3. Imitation – watching and repeating what others do (social learning theory)

4. Causal – problem solving

Connectionist

• All four are important for learning - how they interact with each other varies from person to person (genetics, experience)

• Learning is unique to each individual

Child brain Adult brain

enrichment

How was Jamie’s learning and development facilitated?

• Time• Space• Resources• Knowledge of Jamie and stage of development• Planning for what comes next• Responsive, • Positive interactions

Piaget and Vygotsky

• The environment and the relationships within them are key to children’s learning and development

How are you going to grow learning in the children you will teach?

WHAT IS YOUR PEDAGOGY?

Goswami (2015) p24-25

• 1. Learning is socially mediated• 2. Learning relies on multi-sensory networks across

the brain (not VAK)• 3. knowledge gained through active experience• 4. children think in the same way as adults• 5. Language is crucial for learning• 6. Imaginative/role play supports thinking,

reasoning and understanding• 7. all children learn differently – no one size fits all

First thoughts on Pedagogy

• What did you notice?• What are the children learning?• What similarities and differences do

you see between the sequences?• What are the teachers’ roles here? Is

this teaching?

EV681- before next session

1. Set up your word press blog2. Read ‘Pedagogy the silent partner’3. Blog post 1* responses to first lecture on

teaching and learning 4. Watch video on supporting positive

behaviours in early years

To conclude EV682

Follow up from today: • Set up your wordpress blogs

• Blog post 1* and responses to First thoughts on teaching and learning

• Goswami, U. (2015) Children’s cognitive development and learning , report for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust