The Learning Power Approach to High School Teaching
Guy Claxton and Graham Powell
ISBN 978–178583338–0
Building upon the foundations carefully laid by Guy’s first book in the Learning Power series, The Learning Power Approach, this new instalment embeds the ideas of his influential method in the context of the secondary or high school.
Guy and Graham provide a thorough explanation of how the Learning Power Approach’s core components apply to this level of education and, by presenting a wide range of classroom examples, illustrate how they can be put into practice in different curricular areas – focusing especially on embedding the learning dispositions into students’ tackling of more demanding content, while also emphasising the need to “get the grades”.
Suitable for both newly qualified and experienced teachers of students aged 11–18.
Teaching Learners to Teach Themselves
Guy Claxton
ISBN 978–178583245–1
In this groundbreaking book, Guy distils fifteen years’ practical experience with his influential Building Learning Power method, as well as findings from a range of kindred approaches, into a set of design principles for teaching.
Complemented by engaging and informative classroom examples of the Learning Power Approach (LPA) in action – and drawing from research into the fields of mindset, metacognition, grit, and collaborative learning – The Learning Power Approach describes in detail the suite of beliefs, values, attitudes, and habits of mind that go in to making up learning power, and offers a thorough explanation of what its intentions and guiding principles are. Furthermore, in order to help those who are just setting out on their LPA journey, Guy presents teachers with an attractive menu of customisable strategies and activities to choose from as they begin to embed the LPA principles into their own classroom culture, and also includes at the end of each chapter a “wondering” section that serves to prompt reflection, conversation, and action among teachers.