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This programme looks at the experience of a school where teachers allow the pupils to influence what they learn. Although staff at Kippax Greenfield Primary School, near Leeds, operate within the framework of the national curriculum, they deliver it in an unusual way. Pupils are encouraged to shape the way they learn about light and dark by a process of discovery and enquiry, prompted by their own brain-shower. Year 1 teacher and deputy head Kirsty Beresford talks frankly about how such independent learning has transformed the way she teaches and plans lessons. She describes herself as a facilitator rather than a teacher and reveals that her entire planning for a topic over a half term can be achieved in one brain shower session. She also talks about independent learning sometimes requires teachers to supervise 30 different lessons rather than teach one lesson to 30 pupils.
This programme looks at Kippax Greenfield Primary School on the outskirts of Leeds where staff have transferred the responsibility for learning from teacher to pupil. Headteacher Val Sian confesses that a "stale" national curriculum bored her - and her pupils. In response she decided to pursue a policy of independent learning to such an extent that three-part lessons and conventional lesson planning have become a thing of the past. But she admits that giving pupils such power at has not been an easy journey. Although now successful - the school has progressed from an Ofsted "satisfactory" to "outstanding" in five years - the change has been implemented alongside a rigorous behaviour policy and a big change of culture for teachers. This programme will be of great interest to those interested in developing independent learning.
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[London] : Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education, 2006 publisher catalog number