Independent learning

What is independent

learning?

Why this group?

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How is independent

learning expressed in your subject?

What change can you

make to your practice?

Independent learning

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group

Identify one change you could make to your practice to share for discussion during our next meeting

Why this group?

Focus - Young people process and evaluate information in their investigations, planning what to do and how to go about it. They take informed and well-reasoned decisions, recognising that others have different beliefs and attitudes.

Skills, behaviours and personal qualities• Young people:• identify questions to answer and problems to resolve• plan and carry out research, appreciating the consequences of decisions• explore issues, events or problems from different perspectives• analyse and evaluate information, judging its relevance and value• consider the influence of circumstances, beliefs and feelings on decisions

and events• support conclusions, using reasoned arguments and evidence.

PLTS - Independent enquirers

What one small change could you make to your practice?

Identify one change you could make to your practice to share for discussion during our next meeting

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Shareprogress in focus group

Showcase practice

development with peers

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development

Share progress within focus

group

(1) What is independent learning?(2) What are the characteristics of independent

learning?(3) How is it expressed within your subject?(4) What conditions to teachers need create in order

to encourage greater independence in learners?(5) What small change could you make to your

existing practice that would help you encourage greater independent learning?