Creating Thoughtful Learners in the Primary Classroom
10 Key Skills
Skill 1 Meta-learning
Providing opportunites for the children to explore and understand how they learn best. (visual, auditory or kineasthetic)
'Good Learners understand their learning preferences, using that knowledge to deliver a well-rounded learning performance.' Toby Quibell, 2007 - The Learning Challenge.
Skill 2 Perserverance
Making explicit the strategies that learners should go through to continue with the task, enabling them to overcome their own difficulties whilst maintaining effort.
Skill 3 Questioning and making links
Probing and interogating to establish true meaning and understanding. Teaching learners to ask the 'right' questions should help them to consolidate their own learning.
Skill 4 Imagining
The ability of being able to create mental images of things that may not exist in real life.
Skill 5 Locking onto Learning
Being in the flow and pleasure of learning, managing distractions in order to produce work of quality.
Skill 6 Reasoning
The skill of being able to go through a task in an orderly way, thinking carefully and logically about what they know, in order to draw conclusions and make evaluations which are supported by clear explanations.
Skill 7 Recognising and Producing Quality
The skill of knowing when something is of worth, and knowing how to replicate quality in one's own work.
Skill 8 Independance and Collaboration
"Good learners will be comfortable by themselves and in groups, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each, and when one should be preferred to the other." Toby Quibell, 2007- The Learning Challenge.
Skill 9 Empathy
"Being able to understand another's point of view, and being able to compromise to find a common outcome." Toby Quibell, 2007 - The Learning Challenge.
Skill 10 Distilling
"Mulling over experience, looking for useful lessons and generalisations to be applied to new situations." Toby Quibell, 2007 - The Learning Challenge.
