Product Description

A collection of resources designed to help teachers develop their classroom practice and optimise learning, including practical activities for teachers and examples of how these materials have been used successfully in schools.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #284213 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

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

From the Back Cover

Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools

Mary James, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Colin Conner, Peter Dudley, Alison Fox, David Frost, Leslie Honour, John MacBeath, Robert McCormick, Bethan Marshall, David Pedder, Richard Procter, Sue Swaffield and Dylan Wiliam

‘Learning how to learn’ is widely acknowledged to be an essential preparation for lifelong learning.

This book is based on the idea that formative assessment or ‘assessment for learning’ provides a foundation for learning how to learn. It offers schools a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work on formative assessment but it adds an important new dimension by taking account of the conditions within schools, and across networks of schools, that help teachers to promote learning how to learn in their classrooms. Thus, the book also contains resources for developing the professional culture of schools.

The materials include:

• 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.

The materials have been developed in collaboration with forty primary and secondary schools, as part of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. It collects together the materials provided to these schools and gives guidance and examples of some of the different ways in which schools used or adapted them. The book is linked to a website where further help is also provided.

This book will be essential reading for all schools and teachers who want to make learning how to learn an integral part of classroom practice.

Mary James, Institute of Education; Paul Black, Bethan Marshall and Dylan Wiliam, King’s College London; Robert McCormick and Alison Fox, Open University; Leslie Honour, University of Reading; Patrick Carmichael, Colin Conner, David Frost, John MacBeath, David Pedder, Richard Procter and Sue Swaffield, University of Cambridge and Peter Dudley, Capita Education Services.

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.