Building Learning Power is about:
- Helping young people become better learners
- Developing their portable learning power
- Preparing young people for a lifetime of learning
What is BLP based on?
- An extensive body of research into learning and the brain
- Recent research into the key dimensions of learning power
- Practical trials in schools across the country
- The pioneering work of Professor Guy Claxton, who is programme consultant, and chief inspiration, for TLO’s Building Learning Power programme
How does it work?
Building Learning Power:
- provides a coherent picture of what it takes to be a good learner
- capitalises on previous learning-to-learn ideas
- grows a student’s learning character and habits
- develops the appetite and ability to learn in different ways
- transforms the culture of the classroom and the climate of the school
- shifts responsibility for learning to learn from the teacher to the learner
- engages teachers and students creatively as researchers in learning
- gives schools the opportunity to track students’ learning power
What effect will BLP have?
- raised achievement
- improved behaviour
- increased motivation
- supple learning minds
- increased enjoyment in learning
- established habits of lifelong learning
- enhanced creativity
Sounds great! Anything else?
Building Learning Power:
- shows short-term benefits within days
- starts small and builds firmly
- increases motivation
- takes time, thought, and a bit of ingenuity to perfect
- re-energises teachers
- works best as a whole-school strategy