by Guy Claxton (Author), Becky Carlzon (Author)
In 'Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching',
Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the
Learning Power Approach (LPA) to provide a rich resource of effective
teaching strategies for use in the primary school classroom.
Foreword by Ron Berger.
The
LPA is a pedagogical formula which aims to develop all children as
confident and capable learners ready, willing, and able to choose,
design, research, pursue, troubleshoot, and evaluate learning for
themselves, alone and with others, in school and out. This approach
therefore empowers teachers to complement their delivery of content,
knowledge, and skills with the nurturing of positive habits of mind that
will better prepare students to flourish in later life.
Building upon the foundations carefully laid in 'The Learning Power Approach' (ISBN 9781785832451), the first book in the Learning Power series, Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon's 'Powering Up Children' embeds the ideas of this influential method in the context of the primary school.
It
offers a thorough explanation of how the LPA's design principles apply
to this level of education and, by presenting a wide range of practical
strategies and classroom examples, illustrates how they can be put into
action with different age groups and in different curricular areas
especially relating to literacy and numeracy, but also in specific
subjects such as science, history, art, and PE.
Bursting with
tips and techniques to get students learning muscles stretching from a
young age, the book is designed for busy primary school teachers who
want to get started on the LPA journey as well as for those who have
already made good progress and are looking for fresh ideas. The central
chapters are structured around thematic clusters of the LPA's design
principles, and follow a common format:
1. First, the authors
explain why the design principles focused on are important; including
what s in it for the teacher and what's in it for the children.
2.
Next, they offer a menu of practical low-risk tweaks to classroom
practice that enable teachers to engage with the design principles and
experience some quick wins.
3. Then they provide some ideas about
how to embed the principles more deeply in the ongoing life of the
classroom including some rich lesson examples from across the primary
age range, and from different school subjects.
4. Finally, they
address some of the common bumps and issues that may crop up along the
way, and offer advice to help teachers overcome such potential
obstacles.
Suitable for both newly qualified and experienced teachers of learners aged 3 11.
