Enhancing Learning Conference
Enhancing Learning in the Secondary Curriculum
BLP Spring Conference — 12th February 2009
Alderbrook Leading Edge School and Arts College
Corus Hotel, Solihull
In the new secondary curriculum, the traditional concern with the transmission of valuable bodies of knowledge is counterbalanced by an emphasis on developing a set of valuable personal qualities. Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills are seen as essential for success in learning, life and work, and will inform all aspects of the curriculum.
Alderbrook Leading Edge School and Arts College has transformed and deepened its understanding of learning at all levels in ways that is helping them go beyond 'outstanding’. If you feel that there is a missing dimension to your students’ learning then Alderbrook’s story — inspired by the work of Professor Guy Claxton — may be what you are looking for. These well-researched, tried and tested approaches are being adopted by discerning schools throughout the UK. They provide the scaffolding on which to build a practical and effective response to the QCA’s new secondary curriculum.
TLO’s Spring Conference for Secondary Schools focuses on the route to successful learning taken by Alderbrook. It provides an opportunity to find out how to secure curriculum change and pedagogical development. You can hear from school leaders and classroom teachers about how they have changed their practice, and from students on how these changes have impacted on their learning. Discover how using a common language for learning underpins a different structure for the curriculum at Key Stage 3, with powerful implications for later years of schooling.
As our keynote speaker, Professor Claxton has an international reputation as an inspiring platform speaker. His practical ideas about how to expand young people’s appetite and capacity for learning have influenced educational theory and practice in many countries.
