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Maths & Memory - for Years 6-8


- establishing the patterning base of maths and memory

Learning About Learning for Years 7-10


- noticing and improving learning strategies and
techniques, developing personal learning style for success at
school

Exam Confidence for Years 10-13


- practical study and self-motivation skills for high
achievement in all tests and exams

Learning Resilience for Years 12 & 13 & GATE


- developing flexible thinking, understanding intelligence,
becoming a resilient learner

To help your children:

To help them become:

gain good qualifications?

self-motivated

get into a good university?

self-directed

get a good job?

self-regulated

prepare for life?

independent

develop into brilliant

autonomous

learners?

successful, lifelong
learners?

able to focus and concentrate

good planners, organised

self-motivated

hard working, persevering

independent researchers

creative, innovative thinkers

responsible for their own actions

self-evaluating, reflective

self-correcting

get them out of bed


make sure they eat their breakfast
check their school bag

have them taken to school and picked up after school


clean up after them at home
drop off anything they have forgotten at school for them

take them to after-school activities


provide extra tutors and extra classes for them outside of school
provide motivation, rewards and planning for them

help them with their homework


find resources for them
make sure they go to bed on time

organise their sports, social, musical and academic calendars

provide them with all the necessities of teenage life:

money
cell phone
TV
computer
access to high-speed broadband
railcards and taxi fares?
in return for.?

Efficacy + Agency + Action


1) Efficacy they must first believe that success
in learning is possible for them

2) Agency they must have all the skills,


strategies and techniques of effective learning

3) Action they must be prepared to take


action, make mistakes and fail well

role models biographies, own stories

self-confidence measuring self against self

self-esteem valuing children for who they are

reaction to challenges
helping them move from
I cant I havent yet

In the USA - 400 top corporate recruiters look for:


1) Oral and written communication skills
2) Critical thinking and problem solving skills
3) Professionalism and work ethic

4) Collaboration across networks


5) Ability to work in diverse teams
6) Fluency with information technology
7) Leadership and project management skills

Knowledge of mathematics came 14th on the list just ahead of science


knowledge and foreign language comprehension

Ways of Thinking
Creativity and innovation
Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making
Learning to learn, metacognition
Ways of Working
Communication
Collaboration & teamwork
Tools for Working
Information literacy
ICT literacy
Living in the World
Citizenship local and global
Life and career
Personal & social responsibility including cultural awareness and
competence

Learning Skills in the UK


2008 QCA - A Framework of personal, learning and
thinking skills that are essential to success in learning,
life and work:

Independent inquirers

Creative thinkers

Reflective learners

Team workers

Self-managers

Effective participators

CCSS Common Core State Standards adopted by 47 states


Critical Thinking:

Analyze, Evaluate, Problem Solve

Creative Thinking:

Generate, Associate, Hypothesize

Complex Thinking:

Clarify, Interpret, Determine

Comprehensive Thinking:

Understand, Infer, Compare

Collaborative Thinking:

Explain, Develop, Decide

Communicative Thinking:

Reason, Connect, Represent

Cognitive Transfer of Thinking:

Synthesize, Generalize, Apply

Learning Skills and Work Habits:

Responsibility

Organization

Independent Work

Collaboration

Initiative

Self-Regulation

Poland
Belgium
Italy
Korea
Singapore
Mexico
New Zealand
The Slovak Republic
Spain
and Turkey
have all developed (or are currently
developing) curricula of essential learning
skills for students

5 Skill Categories
Communication
Social
Self Management

Research

Thinking

10 Skill Clusters
Communication

Collaboration
Organisation
Affective Skills
Reflection
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Transfer

Cognitive skills note-making, listening, time management,


questioning, summarising, remembering

- critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving


Affective skills self-motivation, perseverance, resilience,

emotional management, concentration


Metacognitive skills noticing learning and thinking
strategies, trying new strategies, continuously improving
learning effectiveness

The most significant difference between the high


achievers and the underachievers was that

all the high achievers had learned how to


fail well
-

whereas all the underachievers were


failing badly

Failing Badly

Failing Well

Acknowledging your failures

system

- taking responsibility for your


own actions

- working out what you did

Blaming other people

Pretending you never get or do


anything wrong

wrong
- making changes, and

Blaming the school or the

Adding drama to failures to


avoid dealing with them

- having another go

Avoiding any activity that could


possibly result in failure

Americas newly identified at-risk group is pre-teens and teens


from affluent, well educated families. In spite of their
economic and social advantages, they experience among the
highest rates of depression, substance abuse, somatic
complaints and unhappiness of any group of kids in this
country (Dr Suniya Luthar, Columbia University).
The two main contributing factors are achievement pressure
and isolation from parents over-involved in the wrong
things and under-involved in the right things (The Price of
Privilege, Dr Madeline Levine)

Encourage them to take on new challenges


and to use failure as feedback

Help them to notice their own strategies for

recovery from adversity

If they have any problems understanding or


learning schoolwork, focus them on the
factors they can control effort and strategy
use

for effort

for ability

you are so hard working,


persistent, determined.

you are so smart, talented,


intelligent.

links your approval to


something the child has
control over - they can
always do more - grow,
develop and improve

links your approval to


something the child has no
control over - they cant do
more of it - grow, develop
or improve

assessment becomes a
measure of progress, an
opportunity to learn

assessment becomes a
critical judgment, an
opportunity to fail

Focus any praise for achievement on observed effort


rather than ability

Help them to focus on the processes of learning


the strategies they are using as the best source of
improvement

Help them learn to use internet resources well

Subject Site Accumulators:


taolearn.com/students.php - my site with links to all the best free sites to help your study,
including:

topmarks.co.uk search engine for great school subject websites

freebooknotes.com links to many English literature resource sites

Subject sites:
khanacademy.org - really clear clips explaining every part of most subjects

brightstorm.com - great videos and much more in Maths, Science and (American) English

getrevising.co.uk/resources - all subjects at all levels, great new shared resources arriving
from other students daily contribute your own

studyblue.com/notes/high-schools - make and share online flashcards, quizzes and notes,


study on-line and on your phone, you need to join up first but its free

johndclare.net and spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk History sites, all countries, all ages

bookrags.com, enotes.com, shmoop.com, pinkmonkey.com, gradesaver.com,


novelguide.com, bookwolf.com, readinggroupguides.com, sparknotes.com English
literature sites analysis of characters, themes, plots, of books, plays, Shakespeare

s-cool.co.uk and bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize - good resources for all subjects

quizlet.com and easynotecards.com/index - flash card makers for most subjects

studyblue.com notes, flashcards, games in every subject, share resources

languageperfect.com/worldchamps simply the best way to learn any language . All fun.
All gaming. School has to subscribe first

swipestudy.com free flashcard memory study games for most subjects sent to your
phone!

rod.beavon.clara.net/chemistry_contents good explanations of Chemistry topics

xtremepapers.com and freeexampapers.com - old exam papers in most systems

High speed internet is necessary look into

gateways, access restrictions, parental tools

Make sure they have an place to do school work

which suits them physically

Help build good habits of study - give your childs

learning the highest priority in the home for a period


of time every evening

Organisation

Help them learn to use their pleasures as rewards for

getting work done - develop delayed gratification

To remember what they learn at school, each night


they need to read over what they did that day

Allow them to form study groups with friends as long


as they use time together to get work done

The idea of success through learning is picked up


best by imitation - make the culture of your family a
learning culture

Strive to be worthy of imitation

had to work hard?

had to suffer physically, mentally, emotionally?

had to forgo pleasures in your life?

have suffered personal or business set-backs?


And how many want to give your children the
benefits of your struggles without them having
to go through the distress?

but how many of you think that the difficulties

you have faced, the problems you have overcome, the


suffering you have endured have helped you to develop

the resilience you need to create the success for your


self and your family that you enjoy today?

So why protect your children

from responsibility and the


possibility of failure?

earn what they get

organise their own lives

take responsibility for their own actions

fight their own battles

make their own decisions and take all the


consequences

succeed

fail well

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