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Creating learning without limits /

By: Swann, Mandy [author.].
Contributor(s): Peacock, Alison [author.] | Hart, Susan [author.] | Drummond, Mary Jane [author.].
Publisher: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2012Description: xiv, 149 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780335242115.Subject(s): Learning | Mixed ability grouping in education | Elementary schools -- England -- Potters Bar -- Case studies | Teaching -- Great Britain -- Case studiesDDC classification: 371.252
Contents:
alternative improvement agenda -- Swimming against the tide: the premise for the research -- There is another way -- next step: Creating Learning without Limits -- unfolding story -- Laying foundations -- Early days at Wroxham -- Circle group meetings -- Learning review meetings -- Faculty teams -- Continuing professional development across the school -- Enlivening learning -- Conclusion -- Extending freedom to learn -- Offering choices -- Listening to children -- Learning together -- Open-ended curriculum experiences -- Involving children in assessing their own learning -- Extending freedom to learn -- Rethinking learning relationships -- Challenge, congruence and the `natural balance' -- Towards shared understandings -- Building and communicating acceptance -- importance of empathy -- Maintaining steadfastness of purpose -- Making connections -- Putting learning first: creating a school-wide culture of learning -- leadership role in building a school-wide culture of learning -- stable environment -- Building a community of powerful professional learners -- Engaging everybody in the school-wide culture of learning -- moral imperative -- power of collective action -- power to transform learning capacity -- distinctive approach to school improvement -- Relevance, applicability and implications -- future in the making: where do we go from here? -- Final thoughts.
Summary: This book looks at The Wroxham School in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, which has embraced the 'Learning without Limits' approach across the whole school.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. alternative improvement agenda -- Swimming against the tide: the premise for the research -- There is another way -- next step: Creating Learning without Limits -- unfolding story -- 2. Laying foundations -- Early days at Wroxham -- Circle group meetings -- Learning review meetings -- Faculty teams -- Continuing professional development across the school -- Enlivening learning -- Conclusion -- 3. Extending freedom to learn -- Offering choices -- Listening to children -- Learning together -- Open-ended curriculum experiences -- Involving children in assessing their own learning -- Extending freedom to learn -- 4. Rethinking learning relationships -- Challenge, congruence and the `natural balance' -- Towards shared understandings -- Building and communicating acceptance -- importance of empathy -- Maintaining steadfastness of purpose -- Making connections -- 5. Putting learning first: creating a school-wide culture of learning -- leadership role in building a school-wide culture of learning -- stable environment -- Building a community of powerful professional learners -- Engaging everybody in the school-wide culture of learning -- moral imperative -- 6. power of collective action -- power to transform learning capacity -- distinctive approach to school improvement -- Relevance, applicability and implications -- future in the making: where do we go from here? -- Final thoughts.

This book looks at The Wroxham School in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, which has embraced the 'Learning without Limits' approach across the whole school.

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