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The Learning to Learn Toolkit

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.

16 Mar 2012

Dilemma-based Learning in Primary School

Dilemma-based Learning in Primary School is an exciting new resource that is designed to help your pupils gain a deeper understanding of the world and how their decisions affect it.

16 Mar 2012

Exploring Shakespeare through Dilemma-based Learning

English teachers are challenged to ensure that Shakespeare is brought alive to all students. Dilemma-based learning is the ideal strategy to do this. This book provides an innovative approach that will help teachers show students how exploring Shakespeare’s plays is relevant to their lives today, and help students learn social and emotional skills and gain a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s plays.

16 Mar 2012

Engaging pupils with AfL

Lynn Maidment looks at how moving assessment for learning (AfL) on in your classroom, by using active engagement and activating prior knowledge, can have many benefits for both you and your students

27 Feb 2012

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Problem solving with a futures perspective

Bronnie Kenchington reports on a programme widely used across the globe, but only recently recognised in the UK as a valuable resource for gifted learners

23 Jan 2012

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Using ‘Taboo’ to develop learning

Ulrike Thomas examines the potential of a humble board game to develop thinking skills

9 Jan 2012

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Functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills

Functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills are embedded in the National Curriculum programmes of study.

6 Feb 2012

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From cohorts to capabilities

The ‘capabilities approach’ can move us away from a focus on the identification of ‘G&T cohorts’ and lead to a more effective way of developing potential, writes Barry Hymer

20 Dec 2011

Gifted & Talented Hub

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Peer assistance: encouraging learners to learn from each other

Students have much to learn from their fellow learners. From how to give effective feedback to how to evaluate the impact of your peer-to-peer learning activities, Steve Illingworth explores strategies you can use in the classroom to allow pupils to learn as much as possible from their peers to the benefit of all

11 Nov 2011

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Learning from fellow students to progress understanding

CMU interviews Mark Taylor, Head of House and Lead forTeaching and Learning, and Melanie Lyne, Head of Humanities, Sir William Stanier Community School, Crewe

11 Nov 2011

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Independent learning

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The Learning to Learn Toolkit

Dilemma-based Learning in Primary School

Exploring Shakespeare through Dilemma-based Learning

Engaging pupils with AfL

Problem solving with a futures perspective

Using ‘Taboo’ to develop learning

Functional skills and personal, learning and thinking skills

From cohorts to capabilities

Peer assistance: encouraging learners to learn from each other

Learning from fellow students to progress understanding

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