Building Learning Power is about

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