{"id":35,"date":"2016-02-28T20:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/actionresearch.minchacademy.net\/?p=35"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:16:09","slug":"yoda-for-concentration-learning-power-1-unleashed-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/2016\/02\/28\/yoda-for-concentration-learning-power-1-unleashed-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoda for Concentration – Learning power 1 unleashed we have."},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“When tasks are more complex for a pupil, the quality of meta-cognitive skills rather than intellectual ability is the main determinant of learning outcomes.” (Hattie 2009) Hattie looked at 63 studies and deduced an effect size of 0.69 for meta-cognition making it extremely worthwhile. (Shirley Clarke 2014)<\/p>\n

Integration of meta-cognition – Learning ‘muscles’ or ‘powers’.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Using a synthesis of Claxton, Costa, Quigley and Clarke we have taken a split screen approach so that the focused learning power has equal status to the knowledge or skill learning objective of the lesson. (Clarke 2014)<\/p>\n

What we did<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We\u00a0attached a Star Wars character to each of the 8 learning powers. Each one to be revealed over the next 8 weeks.<\/p>\n

On Monday, I\u00a0revealed the first character: Yoda for concentration. First we shared the ‘learning story’ together. It generated great excitement, with volunteers coming up to do their best Yoda impression.<\/p>\n

Then we discussed the story. Was it familiar? Was anything surprising? What messages were there?<\/p>\n

\"Yoda\"<\/p>\n

The children then highlighted the skills contained within the story.<\/p>\n

\"Slide02\"<\/p>\n

In our talk partners, we discussed the skills, how they might help us with our elicitation for maths task and broke them down into bullet points.<\/p>\n

Over the next few days we kept referring to Yoda, doing impressions, linking what we were doing to the skills needed for concentration.<\/p>\n

\"Slide03\"<\/p>\n

Outcome<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was so much fun. Our Yoda impersonations improved as did our meta-cognition for concentration.\u00a0Embedding this metacognitive approach will be a slow burner but if a 5 year old can understand, use and apply a\u00a0split digraph, then I have full confidence that this will pay off in the long run.<\/p>\n

Next step<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The next 7 Learning Power posters are now covered\u00a0up in the classroom – ready to be unmasked! We’ll unveil a character a week until all the categories are known.<\/p>\n

Next learning power – ‘Don’t give up’. Who will be our character? Watch this space.<\/p>\n

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Background “When tasks are more complex for a pupil, the quality of meta-cognitive skills rather than intellectual ability is the main determinant of learning outcomes.” (Hattie 2009) Hattie looked at 63 studies and deduced an effect size of 0.69 for meta-cognition making it extremely worthwhile. (Shirley Clarke 2014) Integration of meta-cognition – Learning ‘muscles’ or … Continue reading “Yoda for Concentration – Learning power 1 unleashed we have.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/actionresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}