Learnership – The Skill of Learning
Do you ever feel like you’re dragging your students through the learning process?
You set most of the challenges. You plan for and scaffold the learning. You find their mistakes, and then you show them how to correct them.
It can seem like some students just coast along. They complete most of the work, but you worry they’re not really challenging themselves.
James Anderson will share with educators in China how to overcome this challenge, specifically introducing the idea of Learnership in his FREE leadership micro-lesson. Click here to learn more.
One of James’ biggest concerns was that too many of his students weren’t taking charge of their learning. They were passive learners.
His students were learning the basic concepts and moving through the year levels. They were even getting decent grades and experiencing success in terms of achieving outcomes. But he often had the nagging feeling he wasn’t preparing them well enough for a life of learning.
James now realizes, and what he will be sharing with us, is that these students lacked what he has come to call “Learnership”.
Quality Learning For and By Students = Learnership
Learnership is the skill of learning. It represents what quality learning looks like.
Think of Learnership in the same way you think of craftsmanship or leadership. It denotes a skillful act. As students develop their Learnership, they engage in the process of learning in increasingly effective ways. Consequently, they can achieve more.
The Learnership Matrix is a bit like an “International Learning Standards for Students”, describing five key characteristics of learning. By identifying a learner’s attitudes and responses to these five characteristics, we can define how skillfully they engage in the learning process.
Take a moment to reflect on the Learnership Matrix and identify how skillfully your students engage in the learning process.
Like all skills, Learnership is developed over time. While the Learnership Matrix is useful in identifying where students are in developing the skill of learning, the real value of understanding Learnership is that it informs teachers how to help students become more skillful learners. We are not just teachers of maths; we are teachers of learning!
