2. Learning without Limits
• A study of teachers
who rejected fixed
ability labelling
• Research published
in 2004
• ‘Creating Learning
without Limits’ 2011
(forthcoming)
4. Escaping from the bottom set
Hargreaves (1982) argues that ability labelling
leads to
‘destruction of dignity so massive and
pervasive that few subsequently recover
from it’
5. Making the future happen
Fixed ability Transformability
• The relationship between • The present has a pivotal
present and future is role to play in future
stable and predictable. development.
• Present practice is • The future is in the
dedicated to realising a making in the present –
future whose limits are everybody can become a
already laid down. better learner.
7. An alternative approach
• Inclusion
• Ethic of
‘everybody’
• Co agency
• Trust
• Creative learning
through first hand
experience
8. Leaders of learning
• Co constructed
curriculum
• Choice of task
• Choice whether to
join intervention
groups
• Class Blogs
• Wroxham Radio & TV
• Learning Review Day
• Shared report writing
11. Making learning irresistible
• Changing the
teaching not changing
the child
• Offering new
experiences
• Never giving up
• Working in
partnership
• Keeping a sense of
humour
12. Who am I?
• Emotional photography
• Individuality
• What makes me, me?
• Celebration of difference
• Who is available to
listen?
• Whose voices are
listened to most?
• Who will listen if my voice
is unspoken?
13. A special time to listen
• Friendship mentors
• Rainbow room
• Self assessment
• Multi agency
approach
• Working in
partnership with
families
14. Will you listen?
Will children in your future classroom
know that they are valued for who they
are?
15. ‘Pupils will not learn to
think for themselves if
their teachers are
expected to do as they
are told’
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