Slides used on 8th Feb with Damian and his gang!

1. What do children need to learn?
‘What (children) should learn
first is not the subjects
ordinarily taught, however
important they may be; they
should be given lessons of
will, of attention, of discipline;
before exercises in
grammar, they need to be
exercised in mental
orthopaedics; in a word they
Alfred Binet must learn how to learn.’
1857 - 1911

2. Number of words heard by children
A child in a welfare-dependent family hears on average
616 words an hour 500
A child in a working-class home hears on average 1,251
words an hour 700
A child in a professional home hears on average 2,153
words an hour 1100
Number of words spoken by the time children are 3
Hart &Risley, 1995

4. What matters is what you believe about intelligence
People who believe
intelligence comes
mainly from nature have
a ‘fixed’ mindset
People who believe
intelligence comes
mainly from nurture
have a ‘growth’ mindset
Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford

5. A selection of thinking skills
ANALYSE DESCRIBE GROUP RESPOND
ANTICIPATE DETERMINE HYPOTHESI SEQUENCE
APPLY DISCUSS SE SIMPLIFY
CAUSAL- ELABORATE IDENTIFY SHOW HOW
LINK ESTIMATE INFER SOLVE
CHOOSE EVALUATE INTERPRET SORT
CLASSIFY EXEMPLIFY ORGANISE SUMMARISE
COMPARE EXPLORE PARAPHRA SUPPORT
CONNECT SE
GENERALISE TEST
CONTRAST PREDICT
GIVE VERIFY
DECIDE EXAMPLES QUESTION
VISUALISE
DEFINE GIVE RANK
REASONS REPRESEN
T

6. What is the typical influence on achievement?
900+ meta-analyses
50,000+ studies and
240+ million students

7. Maths
level
An Effect Size
A common scale for measuring progress in student achievement

8. Visible Learning, John Hattie
25000
20000
No. of Effects
15000
10000
5000
0
Negative Positive

9. Bottom 75

10. Top 75

11. Follow up
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jamesnottingham.co.uk
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James Nottingham
Challenging Learning