Full on Learning: Involve Me and I'll Understand

by Zoe Elder

Full On Learning provides a blueprint for educators in all settings to construct the ideal conditions for students to grow and develop. This is a no-compromise approach to the architecture of learning, creating quality learning experiences that foster a love of learning. The starting point is your the learner. What kind of learner do you want to develop? What are the characteristics of an effective learner and how can we teach in order to support the development of these characteristics? If future employers are looking for people who can solve problems, think creatively, and be innovative, what can we do, as part of our current curriculum provision, to enable students to deliberately practice this skill? If being intelligent is not, in fact, measured by your IQ score, and has far more to do with the ability to apply higher order thinking to unfamiliar contexts and create new solutions to existing problems, then what learning challenges can we design that will allow students to develop the emotional and intellectual resilience required to be able to do this? This book offers a range of tried and tested practical suggestions and ideas to construct the ideal conditions for the characteristics of effective learners to flourish.

336 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 2012