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The Learning Powered School... speaks in a voice that is at once authoritative, visionary, engaging and accessible. Its message is passionate and urgent, its intellectual underpinnings are beyond reproach, and its multitude of suggestions for action are imaginative, practical and tested by real teachers in real schools. --Professor Patricia Broadfoot CBE
Building Learning Power is a superb, innovative, and important program. The approach builds on my work and translates the idea of growth mindset into powerful and practical ways of organising 21st century schools. These schools will turn out not just high achievers but great all-round learners and leaders. --Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford University
Building Learning Power is a superb, innovative, and important program. The approach builds on my work and translates the idea of growth mindset into powerful and practical ways of organising 21st century schools. These schools will turn out not just high achievers but great all-round learners and leaders. --Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford University
I love your book. Here are some reasons why:
- It is extremely readable with lots of stories, classroom examples, clever vignettes, appropriate quotes and practical suggestions.
- It is very well organized. The format of the text alerts the reader as to what to expect.Color-coding, main topics are titled, diagrams and charts all help with understandings, comparisons and applications.
- You raise the level of thinking about the purposes of education by:
- Encouraging schools and communities to raise their level and broaden their scope of curricular outcomes by focusing on more essential, enduring lifespan learnings.
- Enhancing instructional decision making to employ content not as an end of instruction but as a vehicle for activating and engaging the mind.
- Using feedback to guide students to become self-assessing and to help school teams and parents use assessment data to cultivate a more thoughtful actions.
- Forging a common vision among all members of the educational community from kindergarten through post-graduate work: teachers, administrative teams, administrators, librarians, staff developers, teacher educators, school board members, and parents. This vision describes the characteristics of efficacious, creative thinkers and problem solvers so desperately needed now and in the future.
- The many strategies for ways to assess student progress both immediately and in the long-range was eye opening and very helpful.
- You honor me greatly with your frequent references to the Habits of Mind and the similarities with your 17 dispositions. Is it by chance that there are such similarities? I think not. Both your work and mine stem from years of emersion in skillful thinking, synthesizing concepts, strategies and definitions from respected leaders in the field, conducting and sponsoring research in the effects of implementing these ideas and working in the reality of schools and classrooms. It is very reassuring that we both advocate and cherish dispositional outcomes for students and staff--the bigger, more panoramic outcomes are what education is and should be about. As you eloquently state, the world is waking up to the need for these attributes.
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Guy Claxton's classic Building Learning Power: Helping young people become better learners presented both a distinctive goal for education, and a set ofpractical ideas to help schools and teachers attain it. Now, in The Learning Powered School, Guy and his co-authors look at how the ideas and practice have developed, and flourished, over the intervening eight years. The book is rooted in the experience of schools and teachers who have seen the promise of Building Learning Power and have taken up the challenge of realigning their classroom practice, their professional development, and their engagement with parents, sometimes quite radically. Many examples of that trail-blazing experience are described here some as cameos and vignettes, others as extended studies with in-depth discussion. The book also deals with the ideas of learning power, and the science and evidence behind them, which underpin the classroom successes. And of course it reviews the impact including that on results and Ofsted grades. Learning power, and the importance of building it in all young people, could be the keys to transforming education to make it truly fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. The Learning Powered School describes a work in progress, to be sure, but the progress so far is substantial and the future directions increasingly clear.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I was absolutely delighted to get my hands on this book to provide some inspiration before the start of the new term. Long overdue, may I add, since the original Building Learning Power was published way back in 2002 - and a lot has happened since then. Fortunately, what hasn't changed is the underlying philosophy of the BLP approach, now backed up by evidence from implementation at a number of schools nationwide.
This volume updates BLP and provides practical pointers for both classroom and whole school implementation - all in the name of developing a learning powered school - and it's a stunning read. I particularly like the way BLP draws on ideas from other researchers such as Carol Dweck and John Hattie, as well as the realism in terms of advice to senior leaders when thinking about implementation. There are also stacks of ideas for how classroom teachers can 'start small and think big'.
5 core beliefs underpin BLP 2011-style
1) Education is about preparing young people for life after school - not just for tests, but for the tests of life, with all the uncertainties that this will bring. This means developing cognitive, social and emotional resilience.
2) The development of resilience and resourcefulness is relevant for all young people. It involves them in discovering something that they'd really love to be good at and then strengthening the will and skill to pursue it.
3) Becoming confident in a changing world is especially relevant for societies like ours , where young people face change, complexity, risk, opportunity and individual responsibility for making their own way in life.
4) Intelligence is learnable. This is a key belief, in a society where too much emphasis is place on 'ability', which many people are supposed to lack. Real world intelligence is not fixed at birth.
5) The depth and challenge of the change needed to do 1-4 above properly is massively underestimated. What's needed is culture change in schools and habit change by teachers.
For those that need more convincing, try reading What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education which sets out what's so amiss with the typical secondary school culture in this country.
Additionally New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education (Expanding Educational Horizons) provides an accessible and authoritative summary of the latest ideas about intelligence and the implications for schools.
This volume updates BLP and provides practical pointers for both classroom and whole school implementation - all in the name of developing a learning powered school - and it's a stunning read. I particularly like the way BLP draws on ideas from other researchers such as Carol Dweck and John Hattie, as well as the realism in terms of advice to senior leaders when thinking about implementation. There are also stacks of ideas for how classroom teachers can 'start small and think big'.
5 core beliefs underpin BLP 2011-style
1) Education is about preparing young people for life after school - not just for tests, but for the tests of life, with all the uncertainties that this will bring. This means developing cognitive, social and emotional resilience.
2) The development of resilience and resourcefulness is relevant for all young people. It involves them in discovering something that they'd really love to be good at and then strengthening the will and skill to pursue it.
3) Becoming confident in a changing world is especially relevant for societies like ours , where young people face change, complexity, risk, opportunity and individual responsibility for making their own way in life.
4) Intelligence is learnable. This is a key belief, in a society where too much emphasis is place on 'ability', which many people are supposed to lack. Real world intelligence is not fixed at birth.
5) The depth and challenge of the change needed to do 1-4 above properly is massively underestimated. What's needed is culture change in schools and habit change by teachers.
For those that need more convincing, try reading What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education which sets out what's so amiss with the typical secondary school culture in this country.
Additionally New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education (Expanding Educational Horizons) provides an accessible and authoritative summary of the latest ideas about intelligence and the implications for schools.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A Well written and documented journey through 10 years of building learning power. The book makes getting to grips with the complexities of real learning strighforward. A helpful route map for any school or individual teacher to find their way on the journey of learning for life. The co authors have tailored their vision for education into workable strategies for effective learning. I picked it up and put it down whilst on a long journey this summer; there are questions to answer, room for reflection and review and the challenge there for all of us in education - more need to adopt this approach, supporting our young people in schools fit for the 21st Century.
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