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Term on term, year on year, a Building Learning Power School breeds young people who are more curious, more willing to take risks and give it a go, more imaginative and creative, more thoughtful, more ready, willing and able to learn with and from others. It s developing this adventurous spirit that counts. --Professor Guy Claxton
Quite simply, BLP has helped me make sense of the Primary Learning Strategy. This book is an excellent practical resource for any creative teacher. --AST, Primary School
Quite simply, BLP has helped me make sense of the Primary Learning Strategy. This book is an excellent practical resource for any creative teacher. --AST, Primary School
Quite simply, BLP has helped me make sense of the Primary Learning Strategy. This book is an excellent practical resource for any creative teacher. --AST, Primary School --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Quite simply, BLP has helped me make sense of the Primary Learning Strategy. This book is an excellent practical resource for any creative teacher. --AST, Primary School
Quite simply, BLP has helped me make sense of the Primary Learning Strategy. This book is an excellent practical resource for any creative teacher. --AST, Primary School
Quite simply, BLP has helped me make sense of the Primary Learning Strategy. This book is an excellent practical resource for any creative teacher. --AST, Primary School --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This book is about how teachers can help young people become better learners, both in school and out. It is about creating a climate or a culture in the classroom and in the school more widely that systematically cultivates habits and attitudes that enable young people to face difficulty and uncertainty calmly, confidently and creatively. Building Learning Power explains what this means and why it is a good idea, and introduces some of the small, do-able things that busy teachers can do to create such a climate. Students who are more confident of their own learning ability learn faster and learn better. They concentrate more, think harder and find learning more enjoyable. They do better in their tests and external examinations. And they are easier and more satisfying to teach. Even a small investment in building learning power pays handsome dividends for a school. But it also prepares youngsters better for an uncertain future. Today s schools are educating not just for exam results but for lifelong learning. To thrive in the twenty-first century, it is not enough to leave school with a clutch of examination certificates. You have to have learnt how to be tenacious and resourceful, imaginative and logical, self-disciplined and self-aware, collaborative and inquisitive. So Building Learning Power is for anyone who wants to know how to get better results and contribute to the development of real-life, lifelong learners both at once. In other words, it is for teachers, advisers, teacher trainers, parents and anyone else involved in formal or informal education. It is particularly for people who want more than sound-bites and quick fixes. Some of the early approaches to learning to learn were appealing but unsatisfying. They were built on shaky scientific foundations, and they did not lead to cumulative growth in students real-life self-confidence or ingenuity. Building learning power BLP is firmly grounded in both solid science and practical experience; it takes root and develops over time, and its results are therefore all the more robust.
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent introduction to the principles underlying Guy Claxton's work and how to put them into practice. I began highlighting the key insights and gave up when I found I was highlighting everything. Putting the book's principles into practice has transformed my teaching and the approach of my class and school. It's great to take some of the focus off content and put it onto learning skills. It's also great to pause the relentless focus on quality of teaching and take a look at what and how and why children are learning. PS SATs results went up.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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A long time in coming - a down-to-earth inspirational exposition on what learning how to learn in schools is all about. Easy to read with clear models to assist understanding - what do learners do; what teachers and educators can do - it contains loads of ideas for teachers to use immediately. Small changes as big levers to shift the power dynamic in the classroom from the teacher towards the learner. Of course! Highly recommended this will become a classic text, if it's not one already. Enjoy!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I received this book on Friday and have not put it down since. It is a really readable and common sense type of book and I personally cannot wait to get back to the classroom to start putting it into action. It just makes so much sense to encourage learners to develop a love of learning which will take them beyond the classroom and allow them to make the most of their futures.
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a real insight
would recommend to all parents particularly if your child has low self-esteem in the school environment
Published 18 months ago by vera jakovljevic
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This book is awesome! Thank you Guy Claxton. Every school should do BLP. It would change education forever and for the better!
Published 20 months ago by Cd
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