The Learning Pit Pocketbook (UK)The Learning Pit Pocketbook (UK)
“Profound, practical and precise: James Nottingham tells you how to make your classroom a place where young people would love to be.”
Professor Guy Claxton, Author of Building Learning Power
A full description, analysis, and justification for using the Learning Pit® – direct from its creator, James Nottingham
Highlights of the book include
- A full description, analysis, and justification for using the Learning Pit® – direct from its creator, James Nottingham
- The Top Ten ‘Pit Tools’ – proven strategies for guiding students into and out of the Learning Pit
- Guidance as to when to support, when to challenge, and when to engage in cognitive conflict so that all students move from surface to deep learning
- Ways to choose relevant concepts to take students into the Learning Pit, including multiple examples across all subject areas
- The ways in which the Learning Pit helps participants develop resilience, determination, learning strategies and metacognitive thinking
- Questioning techniques to engage and extend participants’ thinking