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report 4: The Learning Agents!
LEARNING THAT FLOWS ACROSS SUBJECTS SO THEY ALL LINK TOGETHER
The ViTaL Development & Research Programme
Report No. 4
What part do the language, concepts, principles, assessment and practice of learning power play in a large English secondary school in which the Key Stage 3 curriculum has been radically re-fashioned to shift the learner's role from that of 'receptor' to that of active 'agent' and to counter-balance emphasis on knowledge, skills and understanding with a primary focus on the process of learning itself?
This is the Report of an ELLI Research and Development Project undertaken in partnership with St John's School and Community College, Marlborough between June 2005 and October 2006
As this project was being planned in 2005, St John's was already one of the leading exponents of the Opening Minds Curriculum, working in partnership with the RSA. It was also embarking on a project focusing on personalised learning and other variables known to be important to a learner centred culture, such as quality of relationships and emotional literacy.
The 'alternative curriculum', which had been running at KS3 for 4 years, was based on the five competencies of:
- learning to learn
- citizenship
- relating to people
- managing situations
- managing information.
This work had enabled the school to advance its practice in several ways in line with the principles of Effective Lifelong Learning and the ELLI project.
The project's broad aims were to:
- explore the ways in which the dynamic assessment of learning power can assist and illuminate teacher- self- and peer-assessment in the context of a competencies-based curriculum
- investigate how the dynamic assessment of learning power relates to policy and practice in:
- personalising learning and learning pathways
- Primary-Secondary transfer, continuity and progression
- differentiating the curriculum to cater for all individual needs
- developing confidence, responsibility and independence - explore how ELLI can be used to enhance and monitor progression of individuals through independent learning pathways.
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