What do you think?
• ‘When you educate someone, you are changing their brain. That is what education is for.’
• ‘Children don’t realise very often that they’re in control of building their own brain’
TES 1.3.13 Dr P Howard Jones
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Outstanding Learners
Jackie Beere Advanced Skills Teacher
Author, Former HeadteacherSchool Improvement Partner
Building the ambition…..
Check yourself out
• Mood• Energy• Open-minded• Brave
M?
What is YOUR default setting?
METACOGNITION Thinking on purpose
Doesn’t it feel great to be so successful!?
When I keep
falling over, I just
laugh!
I ask loads of questionsI’ll eat
anything
I try out lots of
different words and
sounds
All children have the motivation to learn?
I’m never ever going to give up learning to walk
I like everyone I meet!
I LOVE a challenge
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Default settings = habits= ‘typicality’?
What does an outstanding ‘learner’ do?
What % of your pupils?
What % of your teachers?
How do you get more of it……on purpose….
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When observing lessons, you may find the following prompts helpful.
Are pupils working independently? Do they know how to choose to challenge themselves? Do they find it difficult to make choices? Do they respond well to feedback?How well do pupils collaborate with others?Are reading, writing, speaking skills a high priority for pupils and teachersDo pupils take the initiative and take risks?
Are pupils developing habits of good learning?
What are they? TYPICALITY
How do you see it?
You will always prove yourself right
Are you a success?
Limiting beliefs are hard to change….
‘Gap’ pupils need to make excellent
progress‘Able’ children
need to be challenged
(c) Jackie BeereLeadership roles in the classroom
Intervening, anticipating, challenging
HIGH EXPECTATIONS
Primitive
Emotional
Thinkingt
Novelty/surpriseHumourMusicRhythm/rhymeLoveMysteryStoriesPassion!
EvaluationReflectionCreativityAnalysis
FearAngerThreatAnxiety
Learners who know how to build their brain
MAKE IT REAL!
LEARNING TO LEARN
TAs as the MAGIC learning coach
Fixed Growth
Look clever at all costs Learn at all costs
When responding to setbacks, hide mistakes and deficiencies
When responding to setbacks, confront and
learn from mistakes and deficiencies
It should come naturally
Work hard, effort is key
• Give ‘tough love’ feedback• Reward EFFORT• Always praise learning from mistakes • Discuss and debate the learning journey• Encourage review and reflection
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No pearls without GRIT
Growth mindset – Resilience –
In(ter)dependence – Thinking on purpose
What learning experiences in EYFS will nurture the best learning habits?
TeachingReflection on the learning
journey/processChoiceConnecting with their worldWorking in the ‘challenge zone’Feedback that elicits a responseModelling mistakes as learning
experiencesEncouraging and rewarding questions Using coaching questions for feedbackPeer learningSelf assessment and reviewPeer assessment/critiqueLanguage for learningRewarding EFFORT
CurriculumCollaborative ?Co-designed?Strong social context?Cross curricular?Modular?Tentative? (Community of
enquiry)
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Lessons for learning
Putting it all into practice for outstanding learning
Prompt ,punctualand purposeful from the moment they enter your classroom
THUNKS - What colour is Tuesday? What does sadness taste like? Where does the sky end? Can you hear someone think?
Priming the brain
Awright bro’. Howsya doing?
Good morning, how are you today?
What are we learning for?
To discover some activities that will create outstanding learning SO THAT I can
Adapt and use the ideas in my own teaching tomorrowStuck?
Learning strategies?
WAGOLL
Celebrate the struggle of the learning journeyGrowthmindset
Learning is hard, sometimes scary,frustrating, confusing, impossible,fascinating, invisible but creates intrinsic satisfactionthat is addictive…Create learning addicts!
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LearningKnowledge
What is learning?
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Engaging activities for independent learning
Choice – challenge – collaboration-critical thinking – communication
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Standing back and watching them learn – intervening with impact especially with vulnerable learners
MAGIC HABITS POP UP SHOP ACTIVITY
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Choose 5 tasks
Plan the Wedding. Choose your tasks
10. Create your own task – check it out with your teacher
1. Write a script f or your wedding
8. Design a wedding cake
9. Plan a f abulous honeymoon for af ter the wedding
4. Design a menu f or the wedding meal
5. Create the costumes for the wedding
6. Choose the flowers f or the wedding
2. Create some music f or the wedding
7. Find a lovely place to have a wedding
3. Choose transport
CHOICE with a WAGOLL
Dish the DIRT Dedicated improvement and
reflection timePupils must respond to feedback
PEER CRITIQUE
Teach them to take feedback and RESPOND
Children are interactive with their work - GREEN PEN, HIGHLIGHTER, RE-DRAFTINGCALL OUTS, EDITING
Reflecting on the learning?
What do we need for the next part of the journey?
Effective feedback should:• focus on the learning objectives, outcome and/or success
criteria; (WAGOLL?)
• stimulate the correction of errors or improvement of a piece of work; scaffold or support pupils’ next steps;
• provide opportunities for pupils to think things through for themselves; and RESPOND
Focus on EFFORT ,PROGRESS and PROCESS
What do you need to do next to make progress? NOW DO IT!......... What do you need to do next? NOW DO IT!
Learning outcome
Progress over time
Attitudes,behaviours, outcomes
Mood, habits, mindsets, skills
Thoughts and ideas
Beliefs and values© Jackie Beere Associates
Visible
Invisible
7 MINDSETS for best teachers
• Self Evaluate• Believe you can make a difference• Learning about learning• Expect more of your pupils• Feedback is the breakfast of champions• Language for learning• Collaborate to grow
Lessons in emotional intelligence
• Empathy• Optimism• Self awareness• Willpower• Resilience• Stress management• MAGIC HABITS
Think buttons
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Find your hero
Describe yourself as the super
hero
Step into the zone
Feel it, see it, hear it .
BE it
ACTING AS IF…
Action PlanWhat will you keep, what will you grow – is there anything you need to change?
LOVE it?BAG it?BIN it?
After break we will share ideas and questions
Reading and resources
Thanks for listening
By Jackie Beere:
The Perfect Ofsted Lesson The Perfect Ofsted InspectionThe Perfect Teacher CoachThe KS3 Learner’s ToolkitThe Primary Learner’s Toolkit
Mindset – Carol DweckVisible learning – John HattieThe Teacher’s Toolkit – Paul GinnisInspirational Teaching – Will Ryan
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