LML Overview

The document below, Leading My Learning - developing a shared understanding of learning, is intended to describe the learning we could develop through the Leading My Learning and Peer Tutoring programmes as part of the design and implementation of Curriculum for Wales across clusters.  Together these two programmes contribute to a strategy for developing increasingly effective learners who embody the four purposes.  

Below is a summary of work by Helen Immordino-Yang.  Whilst much of the curriculum guidance on Hwb reflects what we know about child development, there is no reference to what is known about adolescent development, even that brains move into adolescence at around 10 years old, with early adolescence spanning the Year 5-9 transition period.  The table below shows what is happening in the brain at the different stages and which environments enables these brains to thrive.  It is important to consider the 'who' of our learners and 'how' their brains develop best, before even beginning to plan the 'what' and 'how' of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.

Below is a resource developed to provide a concise overview of advice for learners and families to counter-act misconceptions about what effective revision looks like.  In reality, developing an effective culture of revision across all ages is an important feature of growing increasingly effective learners; revision strategies should be woven through all learning experiences throughout each year, not just before formal exams from year 10 upwards.

Below is an early presentation showing the origins of the Leading My Learning work.