Effective Learning in Classrooms

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ISBN: 9781412900706 | 1412900700
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/22/2007

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This book addresses an important and too seldom addressed issue: learning. Not teaching, not performance, not "work": this book really is about learning, what makes it effective and how it may be promoted in classrooms.

List of Tables and Figures	p. viii
Preface	p. xi
Why this book?	p. xi
Who are the authors?	p. xi
Why now?	p. xi
An outline map of the book	p. xii
Your Context and Your Experience	p. 1
Learning in Classrooms - What's the Best We Know?	p. 3
Learning from the best of our experience	p. 3
Looking ahead	p. 6
What is Effective Learning in Classrooms?	p. 9
Conceptions of learning	p. 9
The effect of context	p. 12
Inquiring into conceptions and contexts	p. 12
Models of learning	p. 15
Models and classrooms	p. 15
Effective learning	p. 17
The wider context	p. 19
Concluding thoughts	p. 21
What Do We See in Classrooms? - Ways of Seeing	p. 23
The need for a better way of looking	p. 23
The shift to focus on the classroom	p. 25
Learners' views of the classroom and learning	p. 27
Different views of learning - different ways of seeing	p. 34
Faster Learning, Better Teaching, More Testing, Higher Scores: The Big Picture and its Effects on Learning in Classrooms	p. 39
The effects of testing and the emphasis on test performance	p. 41
Defensive teaching	p. 43
Learning in the performance context	p. 45
A focus on teaching not learning	p. 47
Grouping by 'ability'	p. 48
Curriculum distortions	p. 49
Target setting	p. 50
Three more distractions from learning	p. 51
Concluding thoughts: tensions for teachers	p. 53
Working Against the Grain	p. 57
Three examples of working against the grain	p. 57
What these stories can help us learn	p. 63
Concluding thoughts	p. 65
Classroom Processes for Promoting Effective Learning	p. 67
Active Learning	p. 69
Active learning: what do we mean?	p. 70
Activity and effective learning: what's the link?	p. 72
Variations in active learning	p. 74
Active learning: a core process	p. 76
Evidence of effects	p. 80
Voices against change	p. 82
Teachers making the change	p. 84
Collaborative Learning	p. 87
Collaboration - what do we mean?	p. 88
Collaboration and effective learning - what's the link?	p. 89
Facilitating collaboration in the classroom: interaction, task and structure	p. 90
Learning about collaborative learning	p. 97
Collaborative learning: evidence of effects	p. 99
Voices against change	p. 100
Teachers making the change	p. 101
Learner-driven Learning	p. 103
What do we mean by learner-driven learning?	p. 104
What's the link with effective learning?	p. 107
Facilitating learner-driven learning in the classroom	p. 108
Purpose and choice	p. 110
Choice and planning to learn	p. 113
Voice and review	p. 114
Evidence of effects	p. 115
Voices against change	p. 117
Teachers making the change	p. 118
Learning about Learning	p. 121
What do we mean by learning about learning?	p. 122
What's the link with effective learning?	p. 123
Facilitating learning about learning in the classroom	p. 126
Evidence of effects	p. 131
Voices against change	p. 138
Teachers making the change	p. 139
Reclaiming Assessment to Promote Effective Learning	p. 141
Exploring different conceptions of assessment	p. 141
How can assessment support effective learning?	p. 144
Classroom assessment strategies	p. 146
Assessment that is connected, embedded and authentic	p. 152
Making marking meaningful for learning	p. 153
Concluding thoughts	p. 155
The Future in Context	p. 157
Being Exceptional	p. 159
Learning from the best of your past	p. 159
Looking ahead: your vision for classrooms in the future	p. 163
Issues in thinking about changing classrooms	p. 164
Working against the grain - what have we learned?	p. 167
Making a change - the content	p. 169
Making a change - the process	p. 170
Effective learning for teachers	p. 171
References	p. 173
Author index	p. 191
Subject index	p. 195
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