Learning About Learning

This pack contains activities and ideas for teachers nad students to learn more about learning.Learning about Learningis a practical way of teaching important and neglected theories of learning. The idea is that if teachers and students learn about what learning is and how it happens they understand a greater range of learning possibilities and approaches and improve their learning and teaching skills.

This book is about learning

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Why bother with this book?

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What is in this book?

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How might you use it?

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Rationale

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Some permeating themes

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Workshop activities for teachers

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Where's the learner starting from?

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Learning and 'motivation'

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Learning styles - do we all learn in the same way?

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Teachers and their pupils' learning styles

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Terms for learning activities

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Learning in school and out

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A closed problem?

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The six oranges puzzle

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First steps in learning about learning

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Promoting learning about learning, or meta-learning

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Prompts to promote the stages in a cycle of meta-learning

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What is an effective learner like?

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Reflecting on your learning

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Developing meta-learning in your school

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Classroom activities to promote learning about learning

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Introduction

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How do we learn best?

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Time line of learning experiences

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Learning strategy questionnaire

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Learning styles questionnaire

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Beliefs about success

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Handling feelings in learning

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Defences against learning

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Explaining your success

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Learning - in school and out

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Learning situations - in school

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Learning situations - beyond school

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Review of learning check list

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Keeping a learning file

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Back to the future: exploring and planning possible routeways to your preferred future

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The wider context

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Parents

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Parents and learning

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The whole-school picture

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Developing a spiral curriculum for the whole school

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Pupil perspectives on learning

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Effective learning: a research review

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What is learning?

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What is involved? Models of learning

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What is effective learning?

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Effective learning in schools

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The challenge of effective learning: questions and reflections

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Notes for Section E

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Learning About Learning

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