Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools (Improving Practice (TLRP)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138131261 ISBN 13: 9781138131262

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. This book offers a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ‘assessment for learning’. However, it adds an important new dimension by taking account of the conditions within schools that are conducive to the promotion, in classrooms, of learning how to learn as an extension of assessment for learning. Among the materials included you will find:

• an introductory in-service session
• self-evaluation questionnaires
• an action planning activity
• workshops
• tools for school development
• a network mapping activity
• guidance about different ways of using the resources
• teachers descriptions of ways they have used of adapted them
• references to further information and advice.

In addition, there is a support website and examples of how individual schools have used or adapted these materials to maximize their benefits.

About this title

About the Author:

University of London, UK Deaprtment of Education, King's College London, UK University of Cambridge, UK. Colin Conner works in education, UK. Peter Dudley works at Capita Education Services, Bedford, UK. Alison Fox is at the Open University, UK. Leslie Honour, is at the Institute of Education, University of Reading, UK. Robert McCormick is Professor at the Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University, UK. King's College London, UK.

Review:

'[This book] contains a set of extremely important, well researched and well tested in-service resources for primary and secondary school teachers on learning how to learn through assessment for learning...The book is strongly recommended for any teachers interested in improving their pupils' motivation, cooperation and understanding in the classroom. The writing is clear and jargon-free, the book's purpose and structure are always self-evident, and its four parts are packed with ideas, facts, examples, materials and workshop actiivities.' - British Journal of Educational Technology

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138131261
• ISBN 13: 9781138131262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: James Mary, Black Paul, Carmichael Patrick, Conner Colin, Dudley Peter, Fox Alison, Frost David, Honour Leslie, MacBeath John, Marshall Bethan, McCormick Robert, Pedder David, Procter Richard, Swaffield Sue, WILIAM DYLAN