Building ‘learner assets’ in the classroom:
practical approaches to strengthening the skills and dispositions needed for learning across the curriculum and for life!
A full day workshop for teachers : K-8
In the contemporary classroom, educators work to help learners see themselves as capable, curious, resourceful individuals with a strong sense of agency.
There is growing evidence of the importance of nurturing the kinds of dispositions and skills associated with agency. Being curious, adventurous, resilient, coupled with the skills of self-management, collaboration, thinking, and communication are amongst what we can think of as ‘assets’ for learning. Growing these assets in our learners helps set them on a path to independence, contribution to community and a love of learning for life.
These skills and dispositions do not grow by chance – they are best developed through an explicit, thoughtful, embedded approach that embodies an inquiry stance. The role of the educator is pivotal. In this wonderfully interactive and motivating workshop, Kath will draw upon her vast experience of introducing her ‘learning assets’ to schools all over the world and sharing really practical ways to effectively embed skills and dispositions for learning into our work with children and their families.
Over the course of the day, participants will:
- Take a deep dive into the skills and dispositions associated with self-management, collaboration, research, thinking, communication and contribution
- Participate in and design learning tasks to explicitly develop skills associated with assets for learning
- Explore ways to use the ‘language of learning’ in daily classroom discourse
- Learn how to design ‘split screen’ learning intentions and build learning engagements that focus on the how of learning – not just the what
- Explore a range of texts we can use to promote skills and dispositions for learning
- Consider approaches to assessment in relation to these assets for learning Learn how to weave the teaching of these skills and dispositions can be woven into curriculum planning.
