Learning Model

Background:

The White Paper 14-19 Education and Skills (DfES, February 2005) sets out the government’s vision for 14-19 reform, including the aspiration that ‘everyone leaving education is equipped to be an informed, responsible, active citizen’.  The Paper also highlighted the importance of personal, learning and thinking skills:
Personal skills are those which give young people the ability to manage themselves and to develop effective social and working relationships. Thinking and learning skills mean knowing how to learn independently and adapt to a range of circumstances. Together these skills are essential for raising standards, further learning, employment and dealing with a range of real-world problems.

In 2008 the National Curriculum encouraged the focus on Personal, Learning, Thinking skills and introduced Social Emotional Aspects of learning.  The framework for the PLTS consists of six key skills; Independent enquirers, creative thinkers, reflective learners, team workers, self-managers and effective participants.  An interest in social and emotional aspects of learning (SEAL) is nothing new, however far more attention is being paid to social and emotional skills in education, in the workplace and in society as a whole and the impact that it has. Goleman (1996) popularised the term ‘emotional intelligence’ in his book of the same name and made the case that emotional and social abilities are more influential than conventional intelligence for all kinds of personal, career and school success.

The Outwood Grange Learning Model is our way of developing the government strategy through developing 10 key skills and qualities.

Purpose:

• Helping young people become more confident learners
• Developing their portable learning techniques
• Preparing young people for a lifetime of learning

• Every lesson at school will have a Learning Model lesson  outcome
• In Praising Stars© 1, 3 & 5 students will agree a Learning Model target for them to work on in order to help maximise their success in that subject.  Page 5-15 in the planner gives further details of each skill and quality
• Many of our assemblies are themed on the Learning Model and we have whole Academy Deep Learning Days based on the Learning Model

• Focuses on the person rather than the subject and shows how subjects can overlap and ideas are shared
• Goes beyond surface learning
• Good for student’s self esteem

• It’s fun because we get to work in a team and share responsibilities
• I get to talk to different people and I get to lead and make decisions
• ‘Steps I need to take to improve...’
• I enjoy doing active things in teams and being creative.  A teacher doesn’t tell us what to do we decide
• In Deep Learning Lessons we get to critic each other, not be nasty but help each other.

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