1. Challenging Learning James Nottingham www.challenginglearning.com

2. Website www.challenginglearning.com Email james@jnpartnership.com Other Sites www.community-designed-education.com www.carol-dweck.co.uk www.p4c.com

3. My book: Challenging Learning 234

4. What do these 3 have in common?

6. Challenge and Learning Too Hard PA Potential Ability Learning Zone CA Current Ability Practice Zone SA Subconscious Ability Too Easy 82

7. The Teaching Target Model (TTM) PA Learning Zone CA Performance Practice Zone SA Time 85

8. Philosophy for Children (P4C) in nursery

9. An Ethos for Learning Not all of our questions answered … … but all of our answers questioned ? 21

10. Pick a concept, any concept Foreign Fairness Culture Tourism Home Telling lies Language History Names Number Friends Thinking Belonging Knowledge 222

11. EY and Primary Concepts Me Fairness Real Language Home Telling lies Growth/Change Same Pets Emotions Friends Thinking Being nice Dreaming 222

12. Secondary Concepts Hero Lies History Sport Identity Culture Bullying Real Fair Knowledge Language Test Drama Tourism Poem Music 222

14. Wobblers (If A = B) Foreign Different If A = B then Does B = A? Different Foreign For example … 96

15. Year 5 Concept - Tourism 222

16. Wobblers (If NOT A ?) Friend Trust If A = B then If it’s NOT B = NOT A? Don’t trust Not friends? For example … 96

18. Coming out of the Pit with Venn Diagrams Sport War 1 2 3 4

19. Just because you can’t define something, doesn’t mean you won’t recognise it when you see it. Ludwig Wittgenstein

20. Ranking to identify best answers Trust each other Like each other Keep secrets Play together Know each other well Understand each other

21. A selection of attitudes Examples from 7 year oldsExamples from 11 year oldsExamples from 14 year olds Trying my best Always trying hard Persevering Being willing to be helped Being open to advice Being open to support and coaching Concentrating hard Thinking carefully Being focused on what’s relevant Having a go Being willing to try new things Being open to new experiences Not giving up Never-say-die attitude Resilience Not worrying about mistakes Learning from mistakes Treating mistakes as useful feedback Asking questions Being curious Enquiring and being curious 52

24. Ask relevant questions about rivers (S)First 5 minutes – get pupils into the pit e.g. Does a river have to have water in it? 15 minutes research about rivers 10 minutes in groups to collect questions, and group them into categories 5 minutes to decide which is the best question and why 10 minutes sharing with whole class 5 minutes planning for next lesson

25. The ASK model – Attitudes, Skills & Knowledge S Lesson 3 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 A K

28. Define

29. Estimate

30. Give Reasons

31. Predict

32. Rank