The purpose of this resource
As a teacher you are an influential character builder and so need to be mindful of how you help students form, replace, re-form and strengthen their learning habits.
The activities, think pieces and questions in this online resource aim to help you, as a teacher, to make a start on:
- introducing your students to the key learning behaviour known as Revising
- using the language of learning to strengthen students’ Revising behaviours
- designing the use of Revising into the way you teach
- developing your confidence and skill in helping students to grow and strengthen this learning habit.
The essentials of building powerful learners
- learning is a learnable craft
- learning how to learn involves attitudes, values, interests and beliefs
- developing better learners is done with and by learners rather than to learners
- it involves cultivating dispositions and values rather than training skills
- it is not an inevitable by-product of ‘traditional effective teaching’.
- it is about making students ready and willing as well as able to learn
What do we mean by Revising?
When you use this learning behaviour, you …
- are ready to rethink your plans as you go along
- are flexible in your learning
- monitor how things are going
- review your progress and change tack if necessary
- change your plans when you’ve had a better idea
Revising. One of the essential learning behaviours
Why build students’ learning power?
The purpose of building your students’ learning behaviours is to facilitate the growth of their high value psychological characteristics and strengthen their learning character. These skills, attitudes and values, when used with increasing competence and confidence across many learning opportunities, become learning habits; the characteristics of successful lifelong learners.
A linked resource for students
This teaching resource has a linked resource for individual students entitled ‘Getting better at Revising’.
The complementary resource aims to alert students to:
- the nature of Revising
- why it is an important habit
- how it can grow and develop
- where they are now on this learning journey
- actions they can take to improve this habit
- a possible plan of action
Content of this resource
This resource has 6 sections:
Section 1. What is Good Revising? Develops your understanding of Revising.
Section 2. A classroom culture for Revising. Explores the types of classroom culture that nurture Revising
Section 3. Understand how Revising grows. Considers a progression trajectory for Revising.
Section 4. Introducing students to the ideas of Revising. Offers an activity to help teachers introduce Revising to students.
Section 5. Ideas for classroom practice. A range of teaching ideas to support Revising.
Section 6. Develop your practice for Revising. Explores how the teacher’s language impacts of learners’ inclination to Revise.
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