Synopsis
Why do teachers get frustrated by their efforts to teach students new ideas and new skills? Because students lack the ability to learn for themselves and so end up being dependent on their teachers. Villiers High is one of the first secondary schools in the country to have sought to tackle this by introducing a fully developed curriculum designed so that students can learn how to learn. The results have been remarkable, with year on year improvements in public examination results and an increased hunger to learn on the part of students. The result is ASK: How to teach learning to Learn, a serious exploration of the new science of learning. Full of tried and tested teaching and learning strategies, this book will transform the way any teacher sees their subject. All of the lesson ideas detailed in this book are easily applied to any curriculum subject and if used across different subjects, quickly become a transferable map which can help students make sense of their learning and progress rapidly at secondary school. What do you teach now? Science? English? Geography? Learning? Or a combination? Read this book and you will never again think of yourself solely as a teacher of a subject. For you will also be teaching that essential human skill the capacity to learn.
About the Author
Juliet Strang is headteacher of Villiers High School an 11-16 comprehensive school in Southall, West London. She has taught in five schools in different parts of the country, including as Assistant Headteacher at George Abbot School in Surrey and Deputy Headteacher at Cranford Community School in Hounslow before moving to Villiers High School in January 1997. She became an Advisory Teacher in the London Borough of Ealing in 1987 and then moved into educational research at King s College, London, firstly working for the Assessment of Performance Unit and then for the Consortium for Assessment and Testing in Schools. Philip Masterson studied at Nottingham Trent University, leaving with a BA Hons Humanities degree in Literature and Language. He trained as an English teacher at Brunel University and is currently working as a Deputy Headteacher at Villiers high School. Previously, at the same school, he has also been a Teacher Coach, Head of Year and the Co-ordinator for vocational education. He is a consultant for the Specialist School s Trust, the Institute of Education and Alite, specialising in Learning to Learn and Personalised Learning. He is also one of the school s trained counsellors, with a second PGCE in Guidance and Counselling. Last year he was the winner of the Pride In Our People teaching award for West London, sponsored by the Ealing Gazette and Thames Valley University. Olive Button graduated from Imperial College in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is Assistant Headteacher at Villiers High School in London. This is the third school he has taught at in London. Prior to Joining Villiers he was a Leading Mathematics Teacher and successfully led the mathematics department of a large inner-city comprehensive school to achieve Lead Department status under the Excellence in Cities initiative.
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