Learning and teaching

EV681/2

First thoughts on Pedagogy

• What do 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?• So what did we say on our text wall?

Growing learners; growing teachers

Education studies • How do children learn?

• What are the features of learning?

• What is the adult role in learning?

When do children start being learners?

Pair-share• Think back to an experience of

something you wanted to learn• What enabled you to succeed?

What helps you learn?

Friend helped

Manual/instructions

Practised/experimented

motivated

HAD A PURPOSE

fun

interested

Characteristics of Effective Learning EYFS

(2012)

• Playing and Exploring - engagemento Finding out and exploringo Using what they know in their playo Being willing to have a go

• Active Learning – motivationo Being involved and concentratingo Keeping on tryingo Enjoying achieving what they set out to do

• Creating and thinking critically – thinkingo Having their own ideaso Making linkso Choosing ways to do things

Assessment of learning

• Learning to learn - HOW

• 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• Comparing/classifying/making connections• Building on what she knows?• Persevering/persistence• Making decisions/choices• Concentrating• communicating

How was it facilitated?• Time• Space• Resources• Knowledge of Jamie and of child development• Planning for what comes next

you

How children le

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How are you going to grow learning

in the children you will teach?

EV681To follow today:Read Alexander Ch12 ‘What’s Primary

Education for?’ Scan the Stephen article (pre-course

reading) if not already, ‘Pedagogy. The silent partner’ (Reading List link)

In preparation for the next session: Blog post #1 and your responses to Session one

To conclude EV682Follow up from today: • Alexander, R. (2010) ‘Childhood today’, Ch 4 in

Children, their World, their education: final report from Cambridge primary Review. London: Routledge.

Before the next EV682 session: • Blog post 1* and responses to session 2