First thoughts on Learning and Teaching

EV681 and EV682Whole Cohort Lecture

What are the qualities of a good teacher?

Text your answers to the Text Wall using your mobile phones.

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?

Learning in a Digital Age

• Does the digital and technological world we live in change learning?

• What is the impact of digital technologies on learning?

• What makes the difference between a positive/negative influence on learning?

What would the children say?

• If we had some children in front of us now, what questions would you ask them about their experience of ICT and learning?

• Text your answers to the wall

Video chat

Plan B

Growing learners; growing teachers

When do children start being learners?

Pair-share

• Think back to an experience of something you wanted to learn

• What enabled you to succeed?

Characteristics of Effective LearningEYFS (2012)

• 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

Hello Jamie

• Watch and note down what ‘characteristics of effective learning’ you can spot

• How was this learning facilitated?

. . . . is you!

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

EV681

To follow today:Read Alexander Ch12 ‘What’s Primary Education

for?’ (handout)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 EV682

Follow 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