MEDIATING LEARNING

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MEDIATING LEARNING
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Aims

• To ensure educators plan learning to learn
  (metacognition) into all classroom activities
• To provide a structure for the learning process
  which places an emphasis on the role of the
  teacher as a mediator who is able to help the
  learner interpret the stimuli they receive

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Aims

• To outline the criteria in the teaching process
  which will ensure that learners can change the
  way they think and develop efficient thinking
  skills that are necessary to become autonomous
  and independent learners

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Aims

• To provide the learner with the building blocks
  of efficient thinking
• To provide a process that describes how
  interaction can result in effective learning
• To ensure that links are made with the criteria
  of Mediating Learning and AifL

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Education is not the filling of a bucket,
rather, the lighting of a fire
William Butler Yeats
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Discussion Point What do you believe about
learning? Do you passively accept the status quo
or attempt to actively develop in the learner
through mediation efficient thinking skills ?
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Information Movie
Thinking Feuerstein based enrichment http//www.l
tscotland.org.uk/learningaboutlearning/movies/bord
ersthinking.asp
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Key Points

• Intelligence is not fixed,individuals can adapt
  flexibly to their environment throughout life
• This adaptation is underlined by evidence of the
  plasticity and capacity for change in the brain
• Learning is brought about by change in the person
  resulting from interactions (mediating learning)
  with the environment
• Journey to Excellence describes this interaction
  in three phases
• 1 LEARNING EXPERIENCE ? 2 LEARNING PROCESS ?
  3 LEARNING OUTCOMES

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Perspective Movie
How can I reflect on that? Brian
Boyd http//www.ltscotland.org.uk/learningaboutlea
rning/movies/howcanireflectonthatbrianboyd.asp
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Key Question
To what extent does the curriculum equip young
people with learning how to learn strategies ?
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Key Question
How do you ensure the transferability of thinking
skills to all situations?
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Perspective Movie
Intelligence is not fixed Brian
Boyd http//www.ltscotland.org.uk/learningaboutlea
rning/movies/intelligenceisnotfixedbrianboyd.asp.
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Key Question
In what ways do we ensure that learners are not
labelled ? Do you have the belief that you can
help all individuals improve their learning
through effective mediation?
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Chromosomes dont have the last word

• Reuven Feuerstein

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Action Plan
What steps can our school take to introduce
Mediating Learning as an effective pedagogy to
develop thinking skills across the curriculum?
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Learning about Learning
www.ltscotland.org.uk/learningaboutlearning