The 5Rs of Lifelong Learning
What makes a good learner? Or, put another way, what knowledge, skills and attitudes should a learning to learn approach develop? In answer to these questions the Campaign has developed the 5Rs for lifelong learning model.
The Campaign’s belief is that by using learning to learn approaches to develop the 5Rs in all their pupils or students, schools can achieve their core purpose, namely preparing young people so that they can and will continue learning effectively throughout their lives. In phase 3 of the project schools are exploring how this is best done and the impact it has.
Readiness
Resourcefulness
Resilience
Remembering
Reflectiveness
These have been updated following comments from practitioners. Remembering has been replaced with Responsibility.
Pupils know how:
- to assess own motivation
- to set goals and connect to the learning
- to achieve a positive learning state, including their preferred learning environment
- to use a learning to learn language.
Resourcefulness:
Pupils know how:
- the mind works and how humans learn
- to assess their own preferred learning style, including how to take in information
- to seek out and use information, including through ICT
- to communicate effectively in different ways
- to use different approaches to learning.
Resilience:
Pupils know how:
- to apply learned optimism and self-efficacy approaches
- to empathise and use EQ approaches
- to proceed when stuck
- to ask(critical)questions.
Remembering:
Pupils know how:
- to use different memory approaches
- to make connections
- to apply learning, including in different contexts.
Reflectiveness:
Pupils know how:
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to ask questions, observe, see patterns, experiment and evaluate learning.