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The Learning to Learn Toolkit

The Learning to Learn Toolkit

By: 

£99.00

Phase: 

  • Secondary

ISBN: 

978-1-905538-80-5

Published: 

Jan 2011

‘In a rapidly changing and uncertain world learning to learn has to be
the most important element of the curriculum’

Bill Lucas, former Chief Executive of the Campaign for Learning

The Learning to Learn Toolkit is designed to help you equip all your learners with a complete personal toolkit for learning that will help them to succeed at school and to become effective lifelong learners. Learning to learn skills are an essential life skill which every learner should be enabled to develop, and this publication will guide you through every stage of the process. Rooted in rigorous educational research, the book contains hundreds of practical ideas showing precisely how to develop specific learning to learn skills.

Using a simple, but powerful framework, the book guides you through every stage of building a comprehensive learning to learn programme in your school. It includes numerous case studies from real schools and comes with a CD containing a suite of templates, tools and checklists, providing you with a complete CPD resource for your school.

Wherever you are on your learning to learn journey, this resource is designed to help you take your work to the next level. The extensive use of practical strategies, tools and templates are all designed to fast-track you and your learners to a brighter future, where learning to learn knowledge, understanding and skills bring rich success.

Books and Training Products: If you are in the UK, your order should usually arrive within 7 working days. Please allow up to two weeks for deliveries outside the UK. Please note that some books and training packs are available to pre-order prior to publication; they will not be delivered until they are published.

eBooks: If purchased by credit card, you will be provided with easy download instructions for immediate download. If purchased by invoice you will have to wait until we have confirmed that your email address and contact details match your school’s. This is typically done on the following working day. Please note that sometimes e-books are available to pre-order prior to publication; they will not be available for download until they are published.

Benefits

The Learning to Learn Toolkit contains six sections designed to:

  • equip your learners with a complete personal toolkit for learning
  • provide you with a complete CPD resource for your school
  • motivate your students to learn
  • equip learners with the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to become autonomous learners.

The Learning to Learn Toolkit will enable your school to offer the most complete learning to learn programme available today, helping your students to reach their potential, and to continue to excel in their lives beyond formal education.

Chapter breakdown

Section 1: Introducing learning to learn
This section begins by outlining what learning to learn knowledge, understanding and skills are, how they can help your learners and how they relate to school life. This section also discusses the importance of lifelong learning and an explanation of the core framework that will underpin the rest of the book.

Section 2: The research background to learning to learn
Section 2 outlines the key research background underpinning learning to learn, with mention of the principal researchers who have played a pivotal role in the development of learning to learn skills in schools and a summary of recent research into learning to learn in UK schools.

Section 3: Practical guidance on implementing learning to learn in your school
This section gives extensive practical guidance on how you can make learning to learn a success in your school. Here you will find much that will enable you to make your learning to learn work a success, including many training activities for staff.

Section 4: A learning to learn toolkit
Section 4 deals in detail with how you can develop your learners’ learning toolkit, and provides extensive practical strategies to help your learners get ready for learning, use appropriate habits of mind/skills and strategies for learning.

  • Getting ready for learning
  • Habits of mind and skills for learning
  • Strategies for learning

Section 5: Case studies of learning to learn in practice
This section presents a range of case studies showing how schools are tackling the learning to learn agenda. There is much in this section to inspire and encourage you to be bold with your learning to learn programme.

Section 6: Further reading and information
Section 6 outlines further reading and information about learning to learn, with details of the books and websites.

Details

Print: A4 Ringbinder, 280 pages; Accompanying CD-ROM

eBook: A PDF eBook, with over 90 accompanying microsoft word files for adaptation, and every activity split into handy a handy PDF for easy sharing and printing