1. Learning and teaching: all you need to
know in half a day!
October 2016

2. Today…
• The main learning and teaching approaches – what do
we know now?
• Bridging the ‘knowing-doing’ gap shaped up by current
thinking and practice
• Participate in cooperative and collaborative learning

3. Success criteria…
• Know at least 3 things you did not know before about
learning and teaching
• Identify ONE thing you will change about your practice
on leaving this session.

4. The Flipped Classroom Quiz…

6. What do we know now…?
Walk about talk about!

7. Main teaching approaches…
• Instruction
• Demonstrating
• Observation
• Facilitating learning
• Eliciting learner performance

8. Technologies for learning.

9. Cooperative Learning……..Graffiti!

10. Good questioning is…
• Active learning and engagement
• Differentiation
• Challenge and enjoyment
• Deepening knowledge and understanding
• Promoting reflection
• Coaxing out answers

11. Good questioning is…
• Clarification,
• Elaboration,
• Reflection,
• Critical thinking
• Feedback

12. Simplicity factor…
Lower order questions (remember) and higher order
questions (require thinking)
The best learners ask the best questions!
Within the constraints of the curriculum!

13. The Buzz Words…
• Active learning
• Student engagement
• Collaborative learning
• Feedback
• Technologies for learning
• Thinking skills.
Relax – it arises as part of the natural and intuitive learning process!
Younger learners do require greater planning, accuracy and precision.

14. Education Scotland…
• Variety of teaching approaches
• Student involvement
• Effective questioning
• Checking student understanding
• Feedback techniques
• Participation techniques

15. Shaping up sessions…
• Introduction
• Main learning activity
• Plenary
• Summary
Clear beginning, middle and ending.

16. Shaping up sessions makes…
• The learning explicit
• For a variety of approaches
• Giving and receiving clear and regular feedback
• Monitoring progress and attainment of students

17. The most powerful factor that moves learning
forward…
Feedback and feed forward.

18. Feedback should be like a ‘good’ murder…???

19. Differentiation…part of the process!
So long as the student achieves the listed
competencies and learning outcomes, it does not
matter who taught him or her, how or when the
training takes place, what resources are used or what
the content material of the curriculum consists of.

20. How…?
• Content
• Level and pace
• Interest
• Sequence
• Support
• Feedback
• Structure
• Technologies for learning
• Questioning – clarification, elaboration, reflection, critical thinking
• Flipped classroom

21. Review and Preview

22. Prepare your exit pass techniques…
• Back to the success criteria!