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Effective Learning in Classrooms by Dr Chris Watkins, Dr Eileen Carnell, Ms Caroline M Lodge

Presents case studies and examples from practitioners and examines the four major dimensions of advancing real learning: active learning, collaborative learning, learner-driven learning, learning about learning.

Preface

Why this Book?

To our knowledge this is the only book for teachers which:

• takes seriously the complexity of the classroom

• understands the way that classroom practices do (and do not) change

• is based on a twenty first century understanding of learning

• offers a comprehensive range of suggestions for classroom practice

• is evidence-rich in two senses: research evidence and professional evidence.

Who are the Authors?

This book is written by three colleagues who, amongst other things, have

recently been leading the following courses at the University of London Institute

of Education:

MA in Effective Learning

MA in School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Professional Diploma in Learning and Teaching

These are not dry academic courses – quite the opposite. Many teachers from the

UK and all over the world who take them describe them as challenging and reprofessionalising.

The authors also lead projects and short courses with many teachers, schools

and local authorities in England and Wales.

Between them their experience as professional educators amounts to about a

hundred years – and never the same one twice.

Why Now?

The contents of this book would be appropriate at any time, but in England and

other countries there is an extra reason which is current: many classrooms have

reverted to a form of operation which is centuries old and which does not prepare

young people for the world we live in now. Surveys suggest that a teachingdominated

form has increased in recent years, with a correspondingly passive

role for learners. This is not the way to get the high performance, which we all

want for all young people, as one of the things they take away from school.

Effective learning is a core process in many domains of life, and school can

play a special part in helping learners develop the approaches and understandings

which will be effective across their learning landscape.

An Outline Map of the Book

The context of the classroom affects a great deal of what teachers and pupils do.

It crucially affects the approaches to learning which are adopted. Yet the context

of the classroom is rarely addressed when practices for classrooms are suggested

by many proponents. Instead of replicating this, we embed our understandings

of effective learning in what is known about classrooms.

Part I (Chapters 1 to 5) engages with your experience and your understanding

of classrooms, especially in identifying the processes which have been at work

when learning has been best in classrooms you know. Then we seek to analyse

how classrooms are seen, in order to identify the tensions that teachers face, and

the issues when teachers resolve these tensions in a non-traditional way for the

purposes of promoting effective learning.

Part II (Chapters 6 to 10) aims to extend your experience with frameworks and

ideas from a range of sources, mainly using four headings which regularly arise

in teachers’ and pupils’ accounts of the best learning in classrooms. In this part

of the book we use a greater balance of evidence from research, because we want

no-one to think that these frameworks are not solidly based on dependable evidence.

There has been too much advice and instruction to teachers which are

based more on ideology than evidence. The last chapter in this section examines

the process of assessment and what may be done in classroom practices to

reclaim assessment for effective learning.

Part III (Chapter 11) encourages you to take forward the enquiries and experiments

which are appropriate for you in classrooms that you know. This will

entail doing some things which are not part of the dominant picture in classrooms

today, so we encourage you to be exceptional in both senses of the word.

We aim for this book to be thought-provoking, challenging and practically

useful. We sincerely hope that you and the pupils you learn with enjoy reclaiming

the energy of learning.

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