The Learning Challenge

How to guide your students through the Learning Pit to achieve deeper understanding

James Nothingham | Paperback | 21-6-2021 | English

Highlights of the book include:

• A full description, analysis, and justification for using the Learning Pit® – direct from its creator, James Nottingham
• The Top Ten ‘Pit Tools’ – proven strategies for guiding students into and out of the Learning Pit
• Guidance as to when to support, when to challenge, and when to engage in cognitive conflict so that all students move from surface to deep learning
• Ways to choose relevant concepts to take students into the Learning Pit, including multiple examples across all subject areas
• The ways in which the Learning Pit helps participants develop resilience, determination, learning strategies and metacognitive thinking
• Questioning techniques to engage and extend participants’ thinking