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An exercise in learning how we learn to understand

Project Zero Classroom

Summer School on

TfU

1998 – 2007 Slide2

Understanding : making it visible in your own learning

What do you understand really well?

How did you come to that understanding?

How do you know you understand it? Slide3

What do I understand really well?

My wife

My students

Playing drums

My students

ShoppingWhiskeyMoneyProblem solvingManagementTeach technophobic teachersCollaborationMental models

English foreign language

My job: school to school connection

How to make thinking visible

Leadership

Football

Computers

How to work in collaboration

Make food

My family

My dog

Simple mathsSlide4

How did I develop that understanding?

Experience

Being one myself i.e. student; questioning, talking formally and informally

Listening to records, practice

Do it in my teaching

Over many yearsRepetition and observationExperience

Interest

Relevance

Involvement

Care

Failing heroically; making mistakes

Reading about it

Listening to elders

Teaching

Patience; passion; enduranceSlide5

How do I know I understand my chosen topic?

Comfortable working with other musicians, can play together

Treated as an expert; asked for recommendations

Satisfied with my situation

Feedback

RelationshipLove it! Want to learn more.Reaching levels of automaticityWhen I can apply what I understand to others and they can understand

Results- outputs, spin offs, empowerment of others

Can take a mental model of the situation and operate in another

Through the actions of those impacted

Paid money; treated as expertSlide6

Implications for your teaching/learning?

Name the parts

Focus on teaching and learning; combine theory and practice

Active process

Informal and formal ways of learning

How to get them activeSlide7

Implications for student learning?