Learning to learn

 In the video below Guy Claxton explains that learning to learn is a deep seated attitude to your own mind. He explores the difference between expecting that our ability to learn is fixed, rather than being able to grow our capacity to learn.

As you view this clip, consider the following...

1. What are you doing to 'stretch your student's ability to think?" in your programmes?
2. What is the crucial shift he considers important for teachers to make?
3. What is the place of 'essential' or 'core' knowledge in the type of curriculum approach Guy speaks of?

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