Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary
20 Lessons to Guide Young Learners Through the Learning Pit
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Learning Challenge Lessons, Elementary
20 Lessons to Guide Young Learners Through the Learning Pit
About This Book
"James Nottingham's work on Challenging Learning is a critical element of creating Visible Learners. This new series will help teachers hone the necessary pedagogical skills of dialogue, feedback, questioning, and mindset. There's no better resource to encourage all learners to know and maximize their impact!"
John Hattie, Professor & Director, Melbourne Education Research Institute
University of Melbourne Looking for more examples and more lesson plans to get started with Learning Challenges? Help is here!
Created to accompany The Learning Challenge, the twenty lessons collected in this book grapple with timely concepts and provide teachers with everything needed to run thoughtful, dialogue-driven challenges for elementary school students. Each lesson engages students around an exciting topic of current importance—including social media, voting, health, friendship, space exploration, language, fairness, and other issues—and invites students into the "Learning Pit" to explore their thoughts with others through dialogue.
The developmentally-appropriate lessons plans are designed to help young learners
- Learn new vocabulary in the context of dialogue
- Challenge themselves to think through complex concepts
- Follow their natural curiosity and seek answers to questions they pose themselves
- Think critically about issues and discover alternative viewpoints
- Explore disagreements reasonably and co-create meaning with others
Detailed lesson plans make it easy for teachers to facilitaterigorous and thought-provokingdialogue for students.Teacher resources include
- Activities to help students progress from surface level thinking to deeper understanding
- Techniques to get students "into the pit, " where contradictions and uncertainties force deeper thinking—and then out of the pit again
- Full-color activity cards to accompany each lesson
- Diagrams to help illustrate relationships between concepts for students
Each compelling topic challenges young students to think, to be reasonable, to make moral decisions, and to understand another person's point of view—all critical skills in today's complex world. Jumpstart meaningful learning for students with these rigorous and engaging Learning Challenge lessons.
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Part I: Setting the Scene
Chapter 1 Preparing to Use the Lesson Ideas
1.0 Introduction
The Learning Challenge
Challenging Learning Through Dialogue
The Learning Challenge
- An introduction to the Learning Challenge: Chapter 1
- Values and ground rules for engaging students: Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.4
- Identifying concepts: Sections 4.2, 4.2.1, and 4.3
- Creating and selecting questions: Sections 4.4 and 4.5
- Generating cognitive conflict: Chapter 5
- Constructing answers and the eureka moment: Sections 6.1, 6.4, and 6.5
- Reviewing and metacognition techniques: Sections 7.1 and 7.2
Challenging Learning Through Dialogue
- The difference between dialogue and discussion: Sections 2.0 and 2.6
- Creating the right environment for dialogue: Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
- Using dialogue to develop reasoning and reasonableness: Chapter 4
- Groupings and ground rules: Chapter 5
- Opinion Lines and Opinion Corners: Sections 7.2 and 7.3
- How to run a Mystery: Sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, and 8.6
- Philosophy for Children (P4C): Sections 11.1, 11.2, and 11.4
1.1 The Learning Challenge
- We are all responsible for our own actions, but sometimes we act because we are following orders or instructions from others (Lesson 3: Who Was Responsible for Sam Ending Up in the Hospital?).
- You can’t stop the clock or change time, but you can make time for things (Lesson 7: Got the Time?).
- If we throw something away it is garbage, but if someone else reuses it then it is not garbage (Lesson 9: What Is Garbage?).
- Social media builds my self-esteem because I feel good when people like my posts, but social media can damage your self-esteem because it can make you feel bad when people do not like your posts or make negative comments about them (Lesson 11: Should Theon Post That?).
- Fairness is about following the rules, but sometimes the rules aren’t fair (Lesson 12: Was Willy Wonka Fair?).
Stage 1: Concept
Stage 2: Conflict
Stage 3: Construct
Stage 4: Consider
1.2 Learning Intentions
- An inquiring outlook coupled with an ability to articulate problems
- A tendency to be intellectually proactive and persistent
- A capacity for imaginative and adventurous thinking
- A habit of exploring alternative possibilities
- An ability to critically examine issues
- A capacity for sound, independent judgment
- Actively listening to others and trying to understand their viewpoints
- Giving reasons for what you say and expecting the same of others
- Exploring disagreements reasonably
- Being generally cooperative and constructive
- Being socially communicative and inclusive
- Taking other people’s feelings and concerns into account
1.3 High-Quality Dialogue
- Challenges ideas, reasons, and assumptions
- Makes participants wobble
- Leads to deeper thinking
- Encourages participants to co-construct meaning together
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- About the Contributors
- The Language of Learning
- Part I: Setting the Scene
- Chapter 1 Preparing to Use the Lesson Ideas
- Chapter 2 The Lesson Activities
- Part II: THE LESSON IDEAS
- Lesson 1 A Visit to Grandma’s
- Lesson 2 Why Explore?
- Lesson 3 Who Was Responsible for Sam Ending Up in the Hospital?
- Lesson 4 Should You Say Sorry?
- Lesson 5 Does Jake Need a Shared Language at School?
- Lesson 6 Good Thinking
- Lesson 7 Got the Time?
- Lesson 8 If Ricudo Lost His Home, Would This Be the Worst Thing That Is Happening in the Amazon Rainforest?
- Lesson 9 What Is Garbage?
- Lesson 10 Should Ms. Smith Raise Money to Plant Trees Within the School Grounds?
- Lesson 11 Should Theon Post That?
- Lesson 12 Was Willy Wonka Fair?
- Lesson 13 What Is Color?
- Lesson 14 What Is Cost?
- Lesson 15 What Is the Best Sport?
- Lesson 16 What Is Treasure?
- Lesson 17 Who Is the Greatest?
- Lesson 18 Is It Better to Work as a Team?
- Lesson 19 Does Fame Make You More Important?
- Lesson 20 Was Harry Potter the Hero of Hogwarts?
- References
- Index of Concepts
- References
- Photocopiable Masters
- Index
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