Learning Behaviours
Did you know that we can continually develop our capacity to learn in new and challenging circumstances throughout our life?
In the developing field of learning to learn, research suggests that there are several broad dispositions we need to develop in order to become successful learners.
We want to give all our children the opportunity to develop their learning behaviours to become successful lifelong learners. Over this coming year we want to introduce the children to our five learning behaviours as developed by professor Guy Claxton in his research 'Expanding the Capacity to Learn'.
Guy Claxton is one of the UK’s leading experts on the development of young people’s learning and creative capacities.
At Sylvan we are all passionate about learning. We want our children to become curious about learning, to be motivated to learn, engaged in their learning and thinking about their learning.
Our five learning behaviours are:
Reciprocal
Team Player
Be willing to learn alone and with others
Awareness of others, e.g. take turns, share resources, good listening, etc
Developing emotional intelligence
Ability to adapt your role within a team
Reflective
Thoughtful
Ask questions & self assess
Show awareness of problems, challenges & successes
Make links and know next steps & improvements
Evaluate to move learning forward
Resilient
Determined
Sticking with it
Accept learning is sometimes challenging
Persevere and recover from set backs
Manage distractions– maintain concentration
Accepting mistakes as part of learning
Responsible
Independent
Knowing how to organise yourself
Knowing how to get started
Confidence to collect what’s needed
Organising and looking after the learning environment
Resourceful
Problem Solver
Drawing on resources to assist the learning situation
Drawing on strategies
Thinking creatively outside the box
Using your imagination
Taking a risk
Being brave
Each week our children will get to understand one learning behaviour through assembly time and during lesson time. Rocky the Red Squirrel is going to help us get to know these learning behaviours really well. Rocky and his brothers and sisters have come to stay with us from Brownsea Island. Mrs Steele even went to Brownsea Island to collect them all!
Every Friday in celebration assembly a child from each class who has been demonstrating the learning behaviour focus for the week is presented with Rocky to take home for the weekend.
All the children have been very busy earning marbles to collect in out whole school marble jar.
Guess what? The jar was filled! Rocky was so proud because all the children in the school gained their first reward for a full jar. In a previous assembly the children voted on biscuit decorating to be their first fun treat for all their effort at showing their learning behaviours in class. Brilliant fun!
Their next chosen reward is a whole school pizza party. Lets see how long it takes for the jar to be filled again with marbles. Children are rewarded a marble when they are seen 'doing' the learning behaviour focus that week. Brilliant effort children, keep it up!
It is ROCKY REWARD time!
The children have been working really hard at earning marbles for demonstrating our 5 R's learning behaviours and have filled the jar! As a reward we had a dress up day with the theme being;
"What do you want to be when you grow up?"
