First thoughts on learning and teaching

1. What are the qualities of a good
teacher?
Text your answers to the Text Wall
using your mobile phones.

2. First thoughts on Learning and
Teaching
EV681: Pedagogy, Principles and Practice in Early Education
EV682: Contemporary issues in Teaching and Learning

3. • How do children learn?
• How do we know learning is taking place?
• What is the adult role in learning?

4. When does learning begin?

5. What helps you learn?

6. Characteristics of effective learning
EYFS (EE 2012) Development Matters - non statutory guidance
Learning behaviours
• Playing and exploring-engagement
– finding out and exploring
– Using what they know in their play
– being willing to have a go
• Active learning – motivation
– Being involved and concentrating
– Keeping on trying
– Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
• Creating and thinking critically – thinking
– Having their own ideas
– Making links
– Choosing ways to do things

7. Assessment of learning
• Learning to be learners
• Dispositions to learning - Well being and
involvement
• Development : cognitive, physical, social and
emotional

8. Hello Jamie
Watch the clip, Note down
- What learning is taking place?
- any characteristics of effective learning ?
- How was this learning facilitated?

9. What she did
• Exploring/experimenting/trying out/testing
• Looking /touching/tasting/listening- multisensory
• Motor control: manipulating, moving, holding,
passing, dropping, reaching, shaking
• Comparing/classifying/making connections
• Building on what she knows?
• Persevering/persistence
• Making decisions/choices
• Concentrating
• Communicating/listening/responding/asking

10. Goswami (2015)
Child brain Adult brain

11. How was Jamie’s learning and
development facilitated?
• Time
• Space
• Resources
• Knowledge of Jamie and stage of development
• Planning for what comes next
• Responsive,
• Positive interactions

12. Piaget and Vygotsky
• The environment and the relationships within
them are key to children’s learning and
development

13. How are you going to grow learning in
the children you will teach?

14. First thoughts on Pedagogy
• What do you notice?
• What are the children learning?
• What similarities and differences do
you see between the sequences?
• What are the teachers’ roles here? Is
this teaching?
• So what did we say on our text wall?

15. Goswami (2015) p24-25
• 1. Learning is socially mediated
• 2. Learning relies on multi-sensory networks
across the brain (not VAK)
• 3. knowledge gained through active experience
• 4. children think in the same way as adults
• 5. Language is crucial for learning
• 6. Imaginative/role play supports thinking,
reasoning and understanding
• 7. all children learn differently – no one size fits
all

16. EV681- before next session
1. Set up your word press blog
2. Blog post 1* responses to first lecture on
teaching and learning
4. Watch video on supporting positive
behaviours in early years

17. To conclude EV682
Follow up from today:
• Set up your wordpress blogs
• Blog post 1* and responses to First thoughts on
teaching and learning

18. • Goswami, U. (2015) Children’s cognitive development and learning , report
for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust