Have you ever felt stuck? Maybe you were working on something for a class and had to read, reread, and reread the information again but it still wasn't necessarily coming to you. After all, we learn a lot about ourselves when learning doesn't come easy. You were in the learning pit!
The Learning Pit explains why more challenge leads to enhanced learning. It helps educators structure lessons, and students challenge themselves. It shows educators how to develop questioning and facilitation techniques, and by going through the pit, it helps students to grow their resilience, decision-making and higher-order thinking skills.
The benefit of Social Emotional Learning is undoubted. It helps students develop resilience, emotional wisdom, interpersonal skills, self-efficacy and productive struggle in their thinking. For many educators though, it can feel like yet “another thing” they are responsible for unless however, they have a range of practical strategies to work into everyday instruction – which is exactly what this day with James Nottingham will give you. You will learn about the benefits of productive struggle in the Learning Pit and how to give effective feedback to support students as they learn challenging content.
Find out all about the Learning Pit from its creator, James Nottingham. This workshop will provide a clear path for engaging students in deep and meaningful learning. James will introduce the stages and steps, examples, tools and tactics to engage students in rigorous learning and how to use effective feedback to create self confident learners.
You will walk away at the end of the day with James Nottingham able to:
- identify the links between the learning pit and Carol Dweck's Growth Mindset as well as John Hattie's Visible Learning strategies
- inspire students so they develop resilience, determination, and strategies for metacognitive thinking
- give effective feedback to learners as they engage in challenging learning
- teach students "Pit Tools" to grow their independence and self-efficacy
