How to launch the academic year with a dedicated Learning to Learn Week
How to establish a whole school learning to learn culture
How to remove barriers from students
How to ensure that leaners acquire an intrinsic motivation to want to learn and a lifelong love of learning
How to obtain develop leaners as successful individuals, effective lifelong learners, curious critical thinkers and engaged global citizens.
Aims of the Course
To illustrate, using practical examples, how the educational theory that leads to successful lifelong learning can be embraced as part of everyday practice
To enable participants to engage in intellectual pedagogical discussion and in practical workshops that will enable them to reflect upon and build on their existing excellent practice
To discover innovative approaches with which to enrich provision, motivate students and equip them with the dispositions, skills and strategic awareness of successful lifelong learners
To provide participants with the opportunity to reflect upon the ideas introduced during the day in order to plan for initiatives rooted on the JONK belief that ‘anything and everything is possible’
Participants will learn how to:
Foster a values-led learning-to-learn culture rooted on classrooms as communities of enquiry, intellectual debate, metacognition and philosophical, creative and critical thought
Create the conditions that remove barriers from learners; dispositional, strategic and attitudinal
Create the conditions that lead students to acquire an intrinsic motivation to want to learn, to become leaders of their own learning and to develop as metacognitive-fluent individuals
Explicitly teach students how to learn and how to enjoy occasions when they don’t know with the understanding that this is a necessary first step and pre-requisite to acquiring new knowledge
Engage with and reflect upon the eight pedagogical principles that define the Model of Excellence and Enjoyment (MEE) and that research has shown to have greatest impact on student outcomes
Personalise and shape the eight principles of the MEE Model within each participants’ everyday routine and subject area
Equip students with all the skills, attitudes and dispositions of successful lifelong learners, confident individuals and positive contributors to society through a dedicated Learning to Learn Week at the start of the academic year
Derive, in partnership with the students, a set of lifelong learning dispositions that enables them to access all aspects and demands of the curriculum and to become independent and intrinsically motivated learners who have a positive mindset towards their current challenges and are equipped to succeed with their next steps in education, society and the world of employment
Offer students the opportunity to engage in ‘intellectual playful’ challenges in all subjects which are an integral and seamless part of the provision targeted at students who have mastered the intended learning objective
Course Sessions
Session 1: Introducing the Joy of Not Knowing (JONK)
Session 2: Theory into Practice- an Interactive Session
Session 3: Building on Existing Practice- Practical Workshops
Session 4: JONK- Anything and Everything is Possible
