This document discusses concepts related to learning and teaching in early childhood education. It addresses how children learn, the role of the teacher, and characteristics of effective learning. Some key points covered include: - The roles of playing, exploring, and trying new things in how children learn. - Characteristics of effective learning like engagement, motivation, and critical thinking. - The importance of facilitating learning through providing time, space, resources, and understanding child development. - Assessing learning in terms of dispositions, well-being, and cognitive/social/emotional development.

1. Learning and
teaching
EV681/2

2. First thoughts on
Pedagogy
• What do you notice?
• What are the children learning?
• What similarities and differences do you
see between the sequences?
• What are the teachers’ roles here? Is this
teaching?
• So what did we say on our text wall?

3. Growing learners; growing teachers

4. Education studies
• How do children learn?
• What are the features of learning?
• What is the adult role in learning?

5. When do children start
being learners?

6. Pair-share
• Think back to an experience of
something you wanted to learn
• What enabled you to succeed?

7. What helps you learn?

8. Characteristics of Effective Learning EYFS (2012)
• Playing and Exploring - engagement
o Finding out and exploring
o Using what they know in their play
o Being willing to have a go
• Active Learning – motivation
o Being involved and concentrating
o Keeping on trying
o Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
• Creating and thinking critically – thinking
o Having their own ideas
o Making links
o Choosing ways to do things

9. Assessment of learning
• Learning to learn - HOW
• Dispositions to learning
• Well being and involvement
• Development : cognitive, physical, social and
emotional

10. Hello Jamie
Watch the clip, Note down
- What learning is taking place?
- any characteristics of effective learning ?
- How was this learning facilitated?

11. What she did
• Exploring/experimenting/trying out/testing
• Looking /touching/tasting/listening- multisensory
• Comparing/classifying/making connections
• Building on what she knows?
• Persevering/persistence
• Making decisions/choices
• Concentrating
• communicating

12. How was it facilitated?
• Time
• Space
• Resources
• Knowledge of Jamie and of child development
• Planning for what comes next

13. you

14. How are you going to grow learning in
the children you will teach?

15. EV681
To follow today:
Read Alexander Ch12 ‘What’s Primary
Education for?’
Scan the Stephen article (pre-course
reading) if not already, ‘Pedagogy. The
silent partner’ (Reading List link)
In preparation for the next session: Blog
post #1 and your responses to Session
one

16. To conclude EV682
Follow up from today:
• Alexander, R. (2010) ‘Childhood today’, Ch 4 in
Children, their World, their education: final report
from Cambridge primary Review. London:
Routledge.
Before the next EV682 session:
• Blog post 1* and responses to session 2