I visited a workshop led by Rüdiger Iwan the day before yesterday. What I took away from that workshop was a re-examination of several key issues in school education: the role of homework, the nature of correction of pupil’s work and the link between the concept of portfolio and apprenticeship.
Homework
I think that homework can successfully [...]

We started off with seventy different themes posted on a display board. They were what we considered to be our first thoughts about necessary prerequisite skills for effective autonomous learning. Our goal over the coming weeks is to group them effectively, decide when they should be taught (and later reinforced) and by whom in which [...]

Having worked hard to ensure that we have popular functioning libraries and a computer room in our school (6-19 years) comprehensive, the next stage is to ensure that the students are properly equipped to make the most of their learning activities. Re-focusing on the topic of learning skills particularly those related to autonomous learning I [...]