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Challenging Learning Template One

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Leading Lifelong Learning, March 2012Inner SMR ConferenceWe now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker, 19092005(Described by Business Week as the man who invented management)

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Leading Lifelong Learning

Leading Lifelong LearningAlfred Binet1857 - 1911What (students) should learn first is not the subjects ordinarily taught, however important they may be; they should be given lessons of will, of attention, of discipline; before exercises in grammar, they need to be exercised in mental orthopaedics; in a word they must learn how to learn.

Intelligence nature or nurture?

Alfred Binet1857 - 1911In 1904, the French government asked Binet to create a mechanism for identifying students in need of alternative education Binet created a scale of 30 tasks for 6 14 year olds, ranging from easy to complex onesHe stated his test showed what a child had learnt to that point, and nothing else

Intelligence is not fixed (Binet, 1909)

Alfred Binet1857 - 1911Some recent philosophers have given their moral approval to the deplorable verdict that an individuals intelligence is a fixed quantity, one which cannot be augmented. We must protest and act against this brutal pessimism it has no foundation whatsoever.

Number of words heard by childrenA child in a welfare-dependent family hears on average 616 words an hourA child in a working-class home hears on average 1,251 words an hourA child in a professional home hears on average 2,153 words an hourNumber of words spoken by the time children are 35007001100Hart & Risley, 1995

By the time they start school

Some children start school knowing 6,000 words.

Others, just 500 words.

Source: BBC 2009

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We all have beliefs about intelligence & talents

People who believe intelligence comes mainly from nature have a fixed mindsetProfessor Carol Dweck, StanfordPeople who believe intelligence comes mainly from nurture have a growth mindset

A better example of Lifelong Learning?