My Languages: Summer Reading: Guy Claxton-What's The Point of School? - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Sep 09
  

  Paul Beaufait

  Outlines Guy Claxton's Building Learning Power program, and asserts that: "As students are being coached in how to be usefully reflective about their own learning journeys, they are also developing collaboration skills and developing a richer meta-language in which to talk, not just about the content of their learning, but bout its process as well" (para. 4).

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  • As students are being coached in how to be usefully reflective about their own learning journeys, they are also developing collaboration skills and developing a richer meta-language in which to talk, not just about the content of their learning, but bout its process as well.
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  • • I also loved the words from Joseph Payne, dating back to 1856, against continual testing and likening it to “continually pulling up the plants to see the conditions of the roots, the consequence of which was that all good natural growth was stopped”.
• 15 Aug 09
  

  Isabelle Jones

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