James Nottingham created The Learning Pit to encourage his pupils to step out of their comfort zone and seek challenges that will deepen their learning.
Today, the model is used around the world to enhance students’ language of learning, metacognition, resilience and curiosity. It also helps teachers identify when to move students from surface- to deep-learning, as well as providing a framework for effective questioning.
In this short session, James will identify the key points of The Learning Pit and show you how it can foster a culture of learning for all pupils.
Too often, teachers are trained to use techniques without necessarily understanding their purpose. Instead, the focus should be on how a technique will give us more information about the progress students are making and what we should do as a result.
Chloe Combi is a bestselling author, global speaker, futurist, researcher, and consultant. Her primary area of expertise is young people – Generation Z and Generation A.
I have interviewed over 20,000 young people globally and utilise that expertise into helping schools, brands, companies, governments, and institutions understand and prepare for the present and future.
I am a generation expert who works in hundreds of schools, delivering one-off talks and bespoke long-term projects that benefit students and staff emotionally, socially, culturally, and academically. All my work is underwritten by serious quantitative and qualitative research and data and unparalleled knowledge, using a coveted and highly successful approach and methodology – one that has won rave reviews and a waiting list of schools.
Andrew Patterson talks about his journey in Sport playing International Cricket and Hockey for Ireland as well as professional cricket for Surrey & Sussex, and how this built his resilience which has been cemented whilst going through his debilitating condition of Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia, which he developed in his 30’s. The diagnosis has meant wheelchair confinement is inevitable.
Andrew will explain how EVERYONE can gain resilience and how vital it is in all walks of life in terms of having perspective, the right response and purpose in our lives. Andrew will detail how we can build resilience amongst our athletes, learn to control what they can control and how resilience in sport can help in their everyday lives.