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Assignment 1

Your observations from tasks 3 and 4 and your reading, will have introduced you to a variety of approaches to curriculum organisation and resource management that may contribute to promoting effective learning.

For your assignment response, discuss two examples of approaches that you Believe to be effective in the learning context of your subject.

You should analyse and use examples from both relevant literature and your school/college observations in compiling your response.

The two approaches:

As clearly stated by Cohen L et al, the core function of teachers and schools is to facilitate or provide support to children’s learning. Research alludes that the school uses two approaches to learning which are the structured learning adopting the England National Curriculum and International Baccalaureate so as to address the different and dynamic needs of each pupil.

Teachers are catalysts for learning. In promoting learning there is no single blueprint for effectiveness, though there are very many characteristics of effective learning. Cohen L, et al, 2004 p.167.

Primary Reception Research has shown that: Chris Watkins et al 2007 p.4:

Children learn best...

When they take responsibility of their own learning

When they are actively engaged in their learning

When learning is interactive (as opposed to passive or seat-work)

When they see themselves as successful learners

Using the Inquiry approach in teaching in which one of its values underpins that; knowledge is actively constructed by the learner, in relation to previous knowledge, and not passively received from the environment (teacher, books and so on).

For example in the current unit of Inquiry (Me and My Family) during a Math class observation, materials such as number puzzles using the