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The Learning Power Approach
Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves
First Edition
- Guy Claxton - King's College London, UK
Foreword by Carol S. Dweck
Series:
Corwin Teaching Essentials
Corwin Teaching Essentials
October 2017 | 288 pages | Corwin
Become mind-fit for life!
Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge and skills, but also positive learning attitudes and habits of mind. Guy Claxton’s The Learning Power Approach will help teachers understand how ‘every lesson, every day’ shapes the way students see themselves as learners. This is the beauty of the Learning Power Approach: it is something all teachers can integrate into their daily practice. Claxton’s work helps us notice ‘what lies beneath’ the surface of our teaching and attend more closely to the way we shape dispositions and attitudes. Readers will find:
• approaches focused on building character alongside knowledge acquisition
• cognitive, social and neuroscientific supportive evidence
• practical illustrations and strategies
Written by a renowned cognitive scientist, this book offers a ground-breaking set of design principles for strengthening students’ learning muscles.
"This is the beauty of the Learning Power Approach. It is not a program, not a subject, not an add-on - it is something all teachers can integrate into their practice on a daily basis. Claxton’s work helps us notice ‘what lies beneath’ the surface of our teaching and to attend much more closely to the way we shape dispositions and attitudes to learning."
Kath Murdoch, Education Consultant
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Learning is learnable! Educators can explicitly teach not just content, knowledge and skills, but also positive learning attitudes and habits of mind. Guy Claxton’s The Learning Power Approach will help teachers understand how ‘every lesson, every day’ shapes the way students see themselves as learners. This is the beauty of the Learning Power Approach: it is something all teachers can integrate into their daily practice. Claxton’s work helps us notice ‘what lies beneath’ the surface of our teaching and attend more closely to the way we shape dispositions and attitudes. Readers will find:
• approaches focused on building character alongside knowledge acquisition
• cognitive, social and neuroscientific supportive evidence
• practical illustrations and strategies
Written by a renowned cognitive scientist, this book offers a ground-breaking set of design principles for strengthening students’ learning muscles.
"This is the beauty of the Learning Power Approach. It is not a program, not a subject, not an add-on - it is something all teachers can integrate into their practice on a daily basis. Claxton’s work helps us notice ‘what lies beneath’ the surface of our teaching and to attend much more closely to the way we shape dispositions and attitudes to learning."
Kath Murdoch, Education Consultant
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. The Origins of the Learning Power Approach
Chapter 2. What Is Learning?
Chapter 3. What Exactly Is the Aim of the Learning Power Approach?
Chapter 4. How Do I Get Started? Some Quick Wins
Chapter 5. Why Does Learning Power Matter? 10 Good Reasons for Pumping Those Learning Muscles
Chapter 6. What Is Learning Power Made Of?
Chapter 7. Learning Power in Action: Some Classroom Illustrations
Chapter 8. Design Principles of the LPA Classroom
Chapter 9. What Is the Evidence for the Learning Power Approach?
Chapter 10. Distinctions and Misconceptions
Chapter 11. Joining the Culture Club
Bibliography and References
Resources and Further Reading
Index