2. Why are we looking at this?

3. We are not yet outstanding:
“Although teaching is good overall,
it does not yet enable all pupils to
make outstanding progress.
Teachers’ use of questioning is not
helping them to check how
effective their teaching has been.”

4. “Pupils are not always given
sufficient opportunities to
develop their independence or to
manage their own learning.”

5. We are addressing both these
issues and the one that you
can help us with is the
independent learning.

6. What is independent
learning and what does it
look like?

8. The active
involvement of
children in their
own learning.

9. • Learning objectives
• Success Criteria
• Effective
questioning
• Self & peer
evaluation
• Marking &
feedback

10.  Put children’s evaluation
of their own work (both
self and peer) at the heart
of their learning.

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whole class modelling of success
and improvement linked to quality
work and success criteria
children in pairs ‘success and
improvement’
children individually using green
and red marking
teaching children to include next
steps when evaluating the work
of others (this will have been
modelled by the teacher first)
building in time for children to
improve their work during their
evaluation

12.  Further developing the
use of mind mapping
 De Bono’s thinking
hats/CoRT thinking skills
 P4C

13.  The aim of a thinking
skills programme such as
P4C is not to turn children
into philosophers, but to
help them become more
thoughtful, more
reflective, more
considerate and more
reasonable individuals.

14. What is
this you
may ask?

15.  The belief that
intelligence is not fixed
i.e. everyone can get
better at something if
they work at it .

17.  By being very careful in
the language we use to
praise the children’s
learning i.e. – praise
the learning and not the
child.

20. We believe our home learning
projects encourage
independent learning because
they put no limits onto what the
children can learn and they
allow them to present their
learning in a way that they
enjoy.

21. Recently we have also been
encouraging ‘pre-learning’
through our blogs, because
research shows this has a
bigger impact on children’s
learning as opposed to the
traditional homework.

23. Taking on board what you have
heard today, what do you think
you might do to support
independent learning with your
children?