Building Learning Power
We are exercising our brain power and stretching our thinking muscle!
At Goldfield we are committed to building children’s learning power; not just what they are learning, but more importantly learning how to learn. One of the major developments in recent years has been the introduction of Professor Guy Claxton’s pioneering work on helping young people become better independent learners, which suggests that there are four learning dispositions we are calling these - Perseverance, Resourcefulness, Reflectiveness and co-operation.
Perseverance - being ready, willing and able to learn and sustain concentration
resilience, managing distractions, absorption, noticing, concentration, determination
Resourcefulness - being ready, willing and able to learn in different ways
questioning, capitalising, making links, reasoning, imagining, creating, independenceReflectiveness - being ready, willing and able to become more strategic about learning
planning, evaluating, distilling, revising, thinking, reviewing, consideringCo-operation - being ready, willing and able to learn alone and with others
imitation, interdependence, empathy, concern, listening, collaboration
Just as bodies can become fitter, so too can minds - learning how to learn will prepare the children for the future equipping them to become motivated and enthusiastic life-long learners.
Our BLP Superheroes are Polly Perseverance, Chloe Co-operation, Roger Resourcefulness and Ryan Reflectiveness:
