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To help students:

self-motivated

gain good qualifications?

get into a good university?

get a good job?

autonomous

prepare for life?

independent

develop into brilliant learners?

lifelong learners?

self-directed
self-regulated

and if so, how do we measure our success?

 Could part of the problem be a lack

of the right skills to be able to learn
successfully in a self-regulated

learning environment?

hard working

Students only develop into

self motivated

self-regulated learners:

independent learner

1) by being taught how,

responsible

persevering

self evaluating

opportunities in the

self correcting

classroom to practice

and
2) by having many

self-regulation

Efficacy + Agency + Action

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

2) Agency they must learn all the skills,

strategies and techniques of effective learning

3) Action they must be enabled to take

action, make mistakes and fail well

role models - make newsworthy positive role

models of success through education

self confidence measuring students against

themselves

focus on effort as the key to academic

success

for effort

for ability

you are so hard working,

persistent, determined.

you are so smart, talented,

intelligent.

links approval to an
attribute of the child over
which they have control they can grow, develop and
improve

links approval to an
attribute of the child over
which they have no control
- they cant grow, develop
or improve

assessment becomes a
measure of progress, an
opportunity to learn

assessment becomes a
critical judgement, an
opportunity to fail

if students do well we can praise them for the work they

did to get there, the effort they put in, the determination
and resolution they demonstrated and the growth, the
changes they have made in improving so much.

and if students do badly we can ask them to think about

the process they used to get that result, the amount of
effort they put in and ask them what they would change
if they had another chance, what will they do differently
next time.

and if they get 100% or achieve a top mark without

effort .. we can apologise to them on behalf of the
school for wasting their time and promise to do what we
can to make sure that their learning is more challenging
and worthy of their effort in the future.

reactions to challenges
help them move from
I cant I havent yet

Students need to be taught, and practice, the skills of:

Self-motivation
Concentration
Taking good notes
Applying effort
Developing a flexible learning style
Engaging verbal and non-verbal thinking
Reviewing and remembering content
Key word summarising
Self assessment
Self correction
Researching
Independent learning

VERBAL THINKING

NON-VERBAL THINKING

BLUE
GREEN

BROWN
RED
BLACK

ORANGE
PURPLE

BLUE
GREEN

BROWN
RED
BLACK

ORANGE
PURPLE

nose/ear
crossover exercises

juggling

Water
O xygen
Fruit: instead
desk/table
and chair at
the right
height
light onto
the page

of refined
sugar foods
music without
words
instrumental

Learning Styles?
learn by:

thinking in:

sensory
mode:

looking

pictures

Visual

listening and
talking

sounds

Auditory

doing

feelings

Kinesthetic

Make sure that the main points in every lesson are

presented as:
- something to see
- something to hear and
- something to do

Get students to keep learning logs

Date

One new thing

that I learned
yesterday/last
week was

Where was I?

What time of
day was it?

How was I
taught pictures,
diagrams,
listening,
discussing,
hands-on, other
activity?

Who helped me
to understand?

Date

One time I
noticed that I
wasnt learning
well was

Where was I?

What time of
day was it?

How was I
I found it
taught difficult to learn
pictures,
because?
diagrams,
listening,
discussing,
hands-on, other
activity?

Forgetting Curve

Start every lesson with a closed book preview of the

previous lesson what did we do last time?

Finish every lesson with a closed book review of that

lesson what did we just do?

At the end of each week have students create a

summary of the content covered in that week open
book

At the end of each month have them put their weekly

summaries together into a one month summary

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

Blaming the school or the

system

- taking responsibility for your

own actions

Blaming other people

- working out what you did

Pretending you never get or do

anything wrong

wrong
- making changes, and

Adding drama to failures to

avoid dealing with them

- having another go

Avoiding any activity that could

possibly result in failure

Teach our students the SRL skills they need

Allow them to practice those skills within the

classroom environment develop independent,
autonomous, inquiry based teaching and
learning

Allow them to make mistakes and learn to fail

well

6 billion cell phones in the world

85% of new phones are web enabled
2 billion broadband subscriptions
255 million websites
150 million blogs
8 trillion text messages sent in 2011
107 trillion emails 89% of which were spam
Youtube 72 hours uploaded every minute
3 billion videos viewed every day

every piece of subject matter was available to

your students on the internet, and

they all had access to internet linked tablets,

and

they all had access to high speed broadband

all day....

What could teaching look like then?

A focus on the teaching of learning skills in the national

curricula of 12 countries and across the IB world

The proliferation of high quality school subject based

websites

The ubiquity of internet accessible devices

The availability of high speed broadband

The high level of comfort your students all have with the
digital world

How Real is Real?

The POSBGIL Revolution

Process Oriented Skills Based Guided Inquiry

Learning

To teach ATL skills, practice inquiry learning

and develop self-regulated learners

Sugata Mitra

1)

Work with the person next to you groups of 2-3 people with one
internet connected device per group

2)

Connect to www.topmarks.co.uk

3)

Select common interest subject and level click go

Early Years
Key Stage 1
Key Stage 2
Key Stage 3
Key Stage 4
Advanced
Higher Ed

4)

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< 5 yrs old

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11 14
14 16
16 18
> 18

Check out as many websites as you can

Focus on developing the effective learning skills students need to

learn the subject matter effectively

Pose questions, outline problems, give clear measurable learning

objectives and time frames

Allow students to work collaboratively in small groups

Assign roles researcher, questioner, recorder, director

Enable students to connect to the best subject based internet

(and other) resources

Facilitate their journey

www.taolearn.com/students.php
- the Art of Learning website with links to many
free sites to help you design lessons and to help
your students with their study including:

www.marktreadwell.com/Digital_Resources

www.marktreadwell.com/Image_Libraries
- huge libraries of digital resources for teachers

www.topmarks.co.uk
- search engine for many great school subject
websites

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

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

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

- good sites for history, all countries, all ages

s-cool.co.uk and bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/

- good resources for all subjects for GCSE

mrbartonmaths.com/goodsites.htm
- a collection of free maths sites for GCSE

rod.beavon.clara.net/chemistry_contents.htm#Physical
- great site for Chemistry at all levels

languagesonline.org.uk/
- many languages at every level

swipestudy.com
- self-tests in most subjects sent to your phone!

quizlet.com and easynotecards.com/index

- flash card makers for most subjects

Technological limitations number of internet devices,

broadband & wifi availability and reliability?

Dichotomy between shared information culture of students and

IP and copyright culture of teachers

Lack of good subject based websites in the Turkish language?

Security, difficulty in isolating sites for students to use?

Focus, concentration issues with students on-line?

Lack of awareness in teachers of what is available on-line in their

subjects

Fear of trying something new?

Udacity

TED-ED

BLOOMS REVISED TAXONOMY