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Learning in school resouces for Journalists
Promoting effective and enjoyable learning in schools is one of the main areas of work in which the Campaign for Learnig focus. The past few decades have seen enormous changes in schools. The emphasis in most countries is moving towards a greater focus on the individual learner and the learning he or she requires, while seeking to raise standards and review the content of their curricula. The Campaign is suporting this move and seeking to develop resources and knowledsge to help schools ensure that students emerge with the attitudes and skills necessary for success and personal fulfilment. This part of the our site offers everything you need to cover learning in schools and the Campaign for Learning’s action research in schools project, Learning to Learn in Schools. For more information, case studies and corporate comments or to arrange interviews and advanced photo shots and filming, please contact Louise Dennis in our press office directly on ldennis@cflearning.org.uk or 020 7766 0003.
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E-learning at home and at school
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Projects and Initatives
The Learning to Learn in Schools project is just one of the ways the Campaign is making a difference to learning in schools. It is a major action research project, which is exploring the impact of teaching pupils how they learn. Working with local authorities, schools, teachers, pupils and parents the Campaign is helping to re-shape the education of 5 to 16 year olds to ensue children develop into capable lifelong learners. Encouraged by the very positive results from the first two years of the project, the Campaign co-ordinated a larger research project (Phase 3) which built on and developed the initial findings. Since September 2003 the Campaign has been working with clusters of up to 12 schools in Cheshire, Enfield and Cornwall. A team led by Steve Higgins at the University of Newcastle's Thinking Skills Research Centre has provided the research support for the project. As in phases one and two, the rationale for the project has been to understand how pupils can be enabled to learn most effectively and so give each one the best chance to achieve his or her full potential and uses the 5Rs for lifelong learning as the research framework. Specifically, the research aims to understand the relative importance of different Learning to Learn approaches in raising standards, how the adoption of Learning to Learn approaches impacts on teacher motivation and capacity to manage change and whether, and if so how, Learning to Learn approaches support the development of confident and capable lifelong learners.
As well as indicating an improvement in pupil attainment and motivation in the Learning to Learn Schools, key findings from the last report, published in January 2005, revealed that giving teachers more opportunity to innovate and conduct research into the teaching and learning in their own classroom appears to have a positive impact on teacher’s own professional development. The findings suggest that the project’s research network has been a key feature in enabling the teacher’s learning and development. The report shows that teachers are overwhelmingly positive about the research project. They clearly see themselves as learners in the research process and some perceive that their professional development and career progression has been accelerated as a direct consequence of being involved.
To find out more about the Learning to Learn project and to read the full reports of each year of the research click here.
Learning to Learn Annual Conference - 8 November, Lords Cricket Ground, London
The conference will look at the big picture for teaching and learning in the context of policy developments, emerging findings from the Learning to Learn Project and other major research projects, and will consider the implications for schools, teachers, pupils and the organisations that support them. Contact: Rebecca Goodbourn, E-mail: rgoodbourn@cflearning.org.uk Tel: 020 7766 0018
To book on-line for all forthcoming Campaign for Learning events click here
Learning in Schools publications
Learning to Learn book offer
We are delighted to announce a great offer on our Learning to Learn publications. For each copy of Learning to Learn for Life (£17.45 inc p+p) you purchase, you will receive a free copy of Teaching Pupils How to Learn (making a saving £8.50). Or you can buy Teaching Pupils How to Learn (£8.50 inc p+p) by itself for less than half its normal price.
For more information on this offer and forthing Learning to Learn publications click here
E-Learning at home and Schoolis a report launched in early in 2002 by the Campaign for Learning. The Campaign commissioned Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) to conduct research into the attitudes and practices of secondary school pupils with regard to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) - or 'e-learning' - at home and school. To download the executive summary click here.
