Publications
- Brain Poster x 20
- Brain Poster x 5
- Brain Poster
- 4R Posters (5 sets of 4)
- 4R Posters (Set of 4)
- PLTS 4 Kids (1 set)
- Infusing BLP
- PLTS 4 Kids (5 Sets)
- PLTS 4 Kids (20 Sets)
- At A Glance (1 set)
- At A Glance (5 sets)
- At A Glance (20 sets)
- Special PLTS Bundle
- BLP Activity Bank CD-ROM
- Learning to Learn – The Fourth Generation
- Building Learning Power
- Building Learning Power in Action
- Building 101 Ways to Learning Power
Brain Poster x 20 - £60.00
A full-colour A2-sized poster showing the dispositions and capacities of a powerful learner.
Use it as a public prompt for teachers and students in all classrooms.
Brain Poster x 5 - £17.99
A full-colour A2-sized poster showing the dispositions and capacities of a powerful learner.
Use it as a public prompt for teachers and students in all classrooms.
Brain Poster - £6.00
A full-colour A2-sized poster showing the dispositions and capacities of a powerful learner.
Use it as a public prompt for teachers and students in all classrooms.
4R Posters (5 sets of 4) - £60.00
Five sets of A2-sized posters designed by a teacher from Devon.
Each poster illustrates one of the learning power dispositions, and the learning capacities that make it up.
Use them as public prompts for teachers and students in all classrooms.
4R Posters (Set of 4) - £14.99
An amusing set of A2-sized posters designed by a teacher from Devon.
Each poster illustrates one of the learning power dispositions, and the learning capacities that make it up.
Use them as public prompts for teachers and students in all classrooms.
PLTS 4 Kids (1 set) - £25.00
Help students get to grips with the PLTS
1 set of six A2 posters (one for each of the PLTS). The essence of the PLTS in student focused language.
Infusing BLP - £99.88
NB: PRICE INCLUDES VAT AT 17.5%
Infusing BLP CD-ROM
Key Stage 2 Core Subjects
- 3 Science Lessons
- 3 Maths Lessons
- 3 Literacy Lessons
- 1 Lesson extending the capacity to learn
(MAC and Windows compatible)
PLTS 4 Kids (5 Sets) - £95.00
Help students get to grips with the PLTS
5 sets of six A2 posters (one for each of the PLTS). The essence of the PLTS in student focused language.
PLTS 4 Kids (20 Sets) - £350.00
Help students get to grips with the PLTS
20 sets of six A2 posters (one for each of the PLTS). The essence of the PLTS in student focused language.
At A Glance (1 set) - £15.00
Help infuse the PLTS into their teaching
Bring every teacher up to speed on PLTS! Six idea-packed cards* - one for each of the PLTS - covering:
- The skills and attitudes that underlie the PLTS
- Starter activities
- The emotional climate to nurture the PLTS
- Teachers' routines and teacher talk, to nudge the PLTS along
- Ways you might want to assess the PLTS
*Each card is A3 folded - 4 x A4 sides.
At A Glance (5 sets) - £50.00
Help infuse the PLTS into their teaching
Bring every teacher up to speed on PLTS! Six idea-packed cards* - one for each of the PLTS - covering:
- The skills and attitudes that underlie the PLTS
- Starter activities
- The emotional climate to nurture the PLTS
- Teachers' routines and teacher talk, to nudge the PLTS along
- Ways you might want to assess the PLTS
*Each card is A3 folded - 4 x A4 sides.
At A Glance (20 sets) - £180.00
Help infuse the PLTS into their teaching
Bring every teacher up to speed on PLTS! Six idea-packed cards* - one for each of the PLTS - covering:
- The skills and attitudes that underlie the PLTS
- Starter activities
- The emotional climate to nurture the PLTS
- Teachers' routines and teacher talk, to nudge the PLTS along
- Ways you might want to assess the PLTS
*Each card is A3 folded - 4 x A4 sides.
Special PLTS Bundle - £495.00
For Staff - Help staff infuse the PLTS into their teaching
Bring every teacher up to speed on PLTS! Six idea-packed cards* - one for each of the PLTS - covering:
- The skills and attitudes that underlie the PLTS
- Starter activities
- The emotional climate to nurture the PLTS
- Teachers' routines and teacher talk, to nudge the PLTS along
- Ways you might want to assess the PLTS
For Students - Help students get to grips with the PLTS
1 set of six A2 posters (one for each of the PLTS). The essence of the PLTS in student focused language.
*Each card is A3 folded - 4 x A4 sides.
BLP Activity Bank CD-ROM
The BLP Activity Bank contains over 300 activities designed to:
- help to infuse building learning power into the curriculum
- aid students’ understanding of learning power
- develop a common language for learning across the school
- build students’ effective learning habits
- spark your creativity to develop more…
The activities are organised under five Themes and 24 Topics; and for each topic as three kinds of activity - Connecting, Stretching and Transferring.
- Target age range: lower secondary/upper primary
- Many activities work over a wider range
- Many others are easy to adapt, up or down the age range
- Coaching notes for each main activity
- Topics cover all the Learning Power dispositions and capacities
- Training and consultancy support available
The Activity Bank is installed as an application on the school’s server that can be accessed by any computer on the school's network.
- Site licence allows access by all staff
- ‘Laptops’ option for off-site use
- Resources in PDF files for ease of use
A Demo version is available to download, which runs on a single computer. It contains the application framework, partly populated with a selection of the activities, to give a flavour of what is provided.
Download the BLP Activity Bank Demo
(Currently available for Windows only.)
Licences and Pricing
The basic Activity Bank licence permits a single server installation. This allows access to the Activity Bank from any computer on the school's network, subject of course to the school's locally set login and access permissions.
To allow staff to access the Activity Bank when their computers are not connected to the network, the Laptops Option is available. This creates a clone-installer file, alongside the main installation, which can then be copied to and run on another computer to install a local copy of the main installation. (The name 'Laptops Option' is used because the principal application is expected to be for staff's laptops -- the copy installations will work happily on desktops as well!)
The price for a site licence depends upon the school's Number on Roll, as shown below. For NOR smaller or larger than the bands listed, please contact TLO on 0117 989 8204. All prices are subject 17.5% VAT in addition.
| NOR | BLPAB | Laptop Option |
| 160 - 209 | £350 | £60 |
| 210 - 499 | £425 | £75 |
| 500 - 799 | £500 | £90 |
| 800 - 1,099 | £650 | £120 |
| 1,100 - 1,499 | £950 | £175 |
| 1,500 - 2,000 | £1250 | £225 |
Learning to Learn – The Fourth Generation - £6.50
How do children learn? Can they be helped to do it better? If so, what is involved? And is ‘learning to learn’ — L2L — an accessory to the core business of schools, a distraction from it, or a new way of thinking about what that core business really is?
In this timely essay Guy Claxton, himself an eminent pioneer in the field of L2L, looks back over the evolution of the idea and assesses the state of the art. He points out some of the false starts and blind alleys that have been made as the field has evolved over the last twenty years. But he argues that these pioneering ups and downs are inevitable, and that we have actually made great strides in identifying the powerful learner’s habits of mind, and how to strengthen them.
In his characteristically authoritative and entertaining style, Guy Claxton guides us through this brief history, and lays out the exciting future that is in store. Where the early pioneers saw L2L in terms of revision advice and mnemonics, and their successors talked in terms of ‘learning styles’ and ‘brain-friendly learning’, the science of learning now offers a very much deeper and more challenging vision of what is possible.
The capacity to learn is much more elastic than we thought even a decade ago, and there is now a good deal of ingenious case-law about how to stretch it. Indeed, Claxton argues that this body of work provides a powerful way of making coherent sense of the current fascination with ‘personalising learning’. L2L is not just a way of customising school’s traditional offerings; it can set young people up — able and average alike — to meet life’s challenges with greater confidence and capacity.
“Thanks for this. It’s excellent. I read bits out to colleagues over dinner and we all cheered!’”
Prof Philip Adey, King’s College London
(28 A4 pages.)
Building Learning Power - £17.50
International research into how the mind works shows that we are all capable of becoming better learners. Building Learning Power applies this research directly to the work of teachers in classrooms, to provide a practical framework for fostering lifelong learning in all young people.
To prosper in the learning age, we must learn to embrace uncertainty with robust self-confidence, and approach the future with curiosity and optimism.
Building Learning Power provides a clear direction for this exciting journey, covering:
- How and when we learn best
- The new ‘four Rs’ - resilience, resourcefulness, reflectiveness and reciprocity
- The learning mind
- How teachers can lead others’ learning, by seeing themselves as learning coaches rather than merely purveyors of knowledge
- How building learning power can combat the problems of disaffection, disengagement and disenchantment and increase achievement in tests and examinations
- The skills and understanding that will enable teachers to help young people become better learners
- How building learning power can be practically applied in schools and colleges
(120 pages, full colour.)
Building Learning Power in Action - £12.00
Building Learning Power in Action shows how some schools have embraced BLP, and captures the exciting effects it is having in classrooms. It describes a range of real live examples where busy teachers have tried out some aspects of BLP, and been (to put it mildly) pleasantly surprised by the results. In addition, it unpacks some of those stories, and gives a host of additional ideas about how you might achieve similar results.
“Term on term, year on year, a Building Learning Power school breeds young people who are more curious, more willing to take risks and give it a go, more imaginative and creative, more thoughtful, more ready, willing and able to learn with and from others. It's developing this adventurous spirit that counts.”
Order 5 copies or more for a 25% discount!
(54 A4 pages, full colour.)
Building 101 Ways to Learning Power - £8.50
For teachers starting to explore learning power in their classrooms: this new handbook encourages you to think that bit differently about how you can engage with your students in helping them to become better learners.
The ideas grow out of Guy Claxton’s Building Learning Power, offering practical ways for you to work with your class at exploring and expanding their learning capacities. However, don’t expect an instruction manual, with detailed programmes and lists of tricks: there are lists, and classroom examples, and suggestions aplenty, but they aim to prompt and guide you into creating the ideas that will work with your students.
Enjoy more rewards from your teaching as you coach your students in the processes of their own learning, with the shared knowledge that learning is learnable.
(28 pages, A4.)