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Frankfurt, Germany | 7th - 8th of March 2019

JOIN GUY CLAXTON AS HE SHARES...

THE LEARNING POWER APPROACH
TEACHING LEARNERS TO TEACH THEMSELVES

TARGET AUDIENCE K-12

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BOOST KNOWLEDGE, GRADES AND
LEARNING DISPOSITIONS

Everyone knows what the Holy Grail of education is: schools and classrooms that help all students get the best grades they can AND build genuinely useful, transferable real-world capabilities and dispositions at the same time. We know that a key set of these attitudes and dispositions predict success in life more powerfully than test scores. They include not just resilience, growth mindset and critical thinking, but control of attention, appropriate scepticism, interoceptive awareness and learning agility. What is much less widely understood is exactly how to configure a classroom so that mastering content, getting good grades, and developing these positive learning dispositions happen naturally alongside each other.

The Learning Power Approach (LPA) has distilled the research and practice of a range of leading-edge teaching methods and can now provide the missing details. It comprises a series of small, manageable, cumulative tweaks to classroom practice that reliably boost knowledge, grades and learning dispositions at the same time. The LPA is not a quick fix or the latest fad; it is a research-led culture-change process that grows over time, as the ethos of the classroom, and the whole school, is progressively transformed.

The workshop will involve presentations by Guy, video clips of the LPA in action in a range of schools, ages and subjects, and plenty of time for participants to digest the implications of the LPA for their own practice, and make plans for whole-school development.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

All classroom teachers, middle leaders and senior leadership teams K-12 who genuinely think that education must be about more than literacy, numeracy, grades and trophies. It is helpful, where possible, to have at least two members of the same school who can sustain and transmit their LPA expertise together when they return to school.

WHAT TO BRING?

Laptop, tablet, smart phone – or good old-fashioned pen and paper. Internet access not required.

Guy Claxton is a cognitive scientist specialising in the expandability of our mental powers. He is the author of many books including Hare Brain Tortoise Mind, Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning, and Intelligence in the Flesh. Guy’s bestseller What’s the Point of School? was highly praised by Harvard Professor Howard Gardner, Sir Ken Robinson and Baroness Susan Greenfield.

Guy is the founder of Building Learning Power, a global influence on education which pioneered practical methods of teaching that combine high levels of achievement with the development of useful, general habits of mind. BLP has influenced youngsters’ lives throughout the UK as well as in, for example, Ireland, Poland, Dubai, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.

Guy has a ‘double first’ in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and a doctorate from Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of the Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. He has been Professor of the Learning Sciences at Bristol University, Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at Winchester University, and is currently Visiting Professor of Education at King’s College London.

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The workshop will be held at the Metropolitan School Frankfurt, Germany

Metropolitan School Frankfurt gGmbH
Eschborner Landstrasse 134 - 142
60489 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

IMPORTANT BOOKING INFORMATION

This is an open workshop, there are no qualification or entry requirements. We welcome all teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders.

This workshop is confirmed – you may book your travel and accommodation once you have completed registration.

We do not refund fees, however you may send a different participant from your school in your place if necessary. If this occurs please email workshop organisers to inform them (admin@prolearnint.com)

Professional Learning International reserves the right to cancel the workshop in the event of any unforeseen circumstances. Professional Learning International will not be responsible for any expenses relating to your travel if the workshop is rescheduled or cancelled, please be sure to take out travel insurance. In the event of rescheduling or cancellation Professional Learning International will issue a refund of the workshop fee.

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REGISTRATION CLOSES 1st OF MARCH 2019

2-day workshop – €650 per participant
Registration closes 1st of March 2019

Early Bird discount on sale until 7th December 2018 – €600 per participant

Group Discount Rate (5+ participants) – €600 per participant
Registration closes 1st of March 2019

Late Registration Processing Fee applies from 1st of March 2019 – Additional €50 per participant

You may register online and make a payment by credit card or request an invoice online

The workshop fee includes lunch on Thursday and Friday

Upon course completion you will receive a certificate of participation with the totally number of professional development hours.