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The Future is in Our Hands | Read about how St. Vrain is ensuring pathways to a better future for our students and our community through hands on training and work based learning. #StVrainStorm

StraighterLine students complete their degrees! In fact, 41% more students who went through StraighterLine before entering college were successful at completing their degrees compared to non-StraighterLine peers. We’re here to help students meet their degree requirements despite life's challenges. Read more about the obstacles facing part-time students in this article by EAB: https://lnkd.in/gFefJ5MW

If you are interested in learning more about Operational Excellence, consider registering for this series. These short and interactive sessions will provide you and your teams with practical tools that you can immediately apply to drive sustainable change. We hope to see you there! #operationalexcellence #qualityandsafety #leansixsigma #designthinking #creativity #agile #scrum #baldrige

What a great visual for showing stages of learning.

In today's video, CXK's Chris Targett speaks about the different post-18 options available to you and the importance of taking your time to explore your options. Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/dfdNzNEM

A good read summarising the EEF metacognition report in practice. Teachers need to plan the journey to independence carefully. It’s a generative process and the EEF recommendations scaffold the shift. “Basically, any time that you, as a learner, look up an answer or have somebody tell or show you something that you could, drawing on current cues and your past knowledge, generate instead, you rob yourself of a powerful learning opportunity” (Bjork and Bjork, 2011, p61).

Teach a child how to fish and we will have a nation of independent learners! Over the last couple of years, we have seen the practice of Gradual Release appear in our pedagogical strategies as a way of scaffolding the teaching and learning sequence. Slowly and deliberately allowing pupils to observe, help and try has transformed the way we introduce new concepts in class. Imagine learning how to drive and, in lesson 1, you are asked to go full speed down a motorway without guidance! Unlikely to succeed, right? Our gradual release sequence goes like this... I do, you watch I do, you help We do You do, I help You do, I watch You do

How do you structure and scaffold your lessons to facilitate the development of independent learning skills for all students, including your multilingual learners? The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)'s seven-step model offers a comprehensive framework to "shift responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student"* gradually, either within a single lesson or across a series of lessons. For multilingual classrooms, it is crucial to ensure equitable opportunities for all students to develop these independent learning skills alongside accessing the more advanced concepts and skills from our curricula. So as you review and adjust your curriculum frameworks for next academic year, consider spending time to reflect on which of the following scaffolds could support your learners at each of these seven steps outlined in this model: - visuals; - multiple-choice questions; - cloze paragraphs; - sentence starters; and - learning checklists. By providing essential scaffolding at each stage of this framework we can make independent learning skills accessible to all students, in turn creating inclusive learning environments where every student has the support they need to become confident, independent learners. #inclusivelearning #teachingandlearning #teachers #schools #learning #ealteachers #multilinguallearning * @John Holmes: https://lnkd.in/e3GVQ-DU

This 7-step programme designed to support pupil independence and autonomy is vital for self-directed and more importantly lifelong learning. Take a look! Remember: ‘You are your first teacher’.

It needs strategic scaffolding and support to gradually build motivation and competence, empowering individuals to become self-sufficient and confident in their abilities. #masterylearning #autonomy #confidence #competency #independence