Sandra England - Learning & Teaching Ideas

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More than 40 per cent of school students have trust issues, says psychologist Andrew Fuller.

So, what can teachers do when their students don’t trust them?

In our recent ‘Even Trickier Conversations’ learning event, Andrew Fuller and Dr Stephen Brown shared high-impact communication skills and effective strategies for de-escalating difficult situations and creating trusting relationships in schools. Educators learned how to initiate tricky conversations and explored how they can create opportunities for change.

Andrew said students with different levels of academic strength react to their successes and struggles in different ways, affecting their approach to learning and trust in their teacher:

• Successful boys attribute their success to themselves and their failures as bad luck.
• Struggling boys expect that they will fail (and will do anything they can to try to avoid being shamed)
• Successful girls attribute success to luck or working hard and being stressed
• Struggling girls dumb down.

Can you relate to this with the students in your classroom? Let us know what you think.

OPINION: Primary schools help children thrive, but they could be better and fairer Finnish educator Pasi Sahlberg has studied education systems, analysed education policies and advised education reforms around the world. He has three ideas, inspired by lessons from abroad, to make our primary schools better and fairer places for children.

Explore poetic devices in the classroom Exploring the fundamental poetic devices of simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery.

Dr Kay Oddone's article in SCIS Connections magazine outlines ways in which school libraries can utilise the inevitable AI phenomonen for teachable moments.
https://www.scisdata.com/connections/issue-126/empowering-school-library-staff-to-navigate-the-ai-frontier/

Boosting Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Visible thinking routines that encourage students to document and share their ideas can have a profound effect on their learning.