1. Learning and
teaching
EV681/2

2. First thoughts on
Pedagogy
• What do you notice?
• What are the children learning?
• What similarities and differences do you
see between the sequences?
• What are the teachers’ roles here? Is this
teaching?
• So what did we say on our text wall?

3. Growing learners; growing teachers

4. Education studies
• How do children learn?
• What are the features of learning?
• What is the adult role in learning?

5. When do children start
being learners?

6. Pair-share
• Think back to an experience of
something you wanted to learn
• What enabled you to succeed?

7. What helps you learn?

8. Characteristics of Effective Learning EYFS (2012)
• Playing and Exploring - engagement
o Finding out and exploring
o Using what they know in their play
o Being willing to have a go
• Active Learning – motivation
o Being involved and concentrating
o Keeping on trying
o Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
• Creating and thinking critically – thinking
o Having their own ideas
o Making links
o Choosing ways to do things

9. Assessment of learning
• Learning to learn - HOW
• Dispositions to learning
• Well being and involvement
• Development : cognitive, physical, social and
emotional

10. Hello Jamie
Watch the clip, Note down
- What learning is taking place?
- any characteristics of effective learning ?
- How was this learning facilitated?

11. What she did
• Exploring/experimenting/trying out/testing
• Looking /touching/tasting/listening- multisensory
• Comparing/classifying/making connections
• Building on what she knows?
• Persevering/persistence
• Making decisions/choices
• Concentrating
• communicating

12. How was it facilitated?
• Time
• Space
• Resources
• Knowledge of Jamie and of child development
• Planning for what comes next

13. you

14. How are you going to grow learning in
the children you will teach?

15. EV681
To follow today:
Read Alexander Ch12 ‘What’s Primary
Education for?’
Scan the Stephen article (pre-course
reading) if not already, ‘Pedagogy. The
silent partner’ (Reading List link)
In preparation for the next session: Blog
post #1 and your responses to Session
one

16. To conclude EV682
Follow up from today:
• Alexander, R. (2010) ‘Childhood today’, Ch 4 in
Children, their World, their education: final report
from Cambridge primary Review. London:
Routledge.
Before the next EV682 session:
• Blog post 1* and responses to session 2