Here is a brilliant new practical work book to help children acquire the language, skills and self-awareness of successful learners.Everyone is good at something and we can all be good at learning if we know how to think and behave as learners. This book will show your children how, and help them to understand, why it is important. Think Like a Learner! asks children to involve themselves in key questions about learning and develops their self-awareness as self-critical thinkers and learners How do we think and talk about learning? 'Think like a learner' is for learners, rather than exclusively for teachers, although the authors very much hope that teachers and learners will explore together the ideas that are presented. It is vital to acknowledge learners as the co-constructors of their learning rather than perceiving themselves as the recipients of learning provided by teachers. This book will hopefully demonstrate how we can all be good at learning if we know how to think and behave as learners, and it also emphasises why this is so important - exploring how we think and talk about learning, the significance of 'bouncebackability', the features of high quality team learning and developing greater responsibility for our own learning. We often focus too much on the outcome of learning rather than on the process. In 'Think like a learner', we try to help children see that when they develop the ability to bounce back, recognise their own problems, solve them, and learn together in teams, whatever outcome they are aiming for, success in getting it becomes more likely.

Introducing a model for supporting and guiding successful learning and teaching in schools. Learning is a complex process and Towards Successful Learning attempts to 'solve the puzzle' by taking significant 'pieces' of the process one by one and putting them together.This book introduces the reader to a model for supporting and guiding the development of successful learning in classrooms. The model is designed to engage learners and teachers in exploring what learners need in order to experience success and what the implications of this will be for teachers and educators. It is intended that the model should be used as a starting point to help learners and teachers make better sense of successful learning - from that point it is the teachers and leaders in schools who will take ownership of it and move forward with it to improve the quality of learning through a deeper understanding. So what is successful learning?What do successful learners do?What do successful learners need?How can we make it happen?