Super Learning Lesson
An ideal way to compliment your
Personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS) Program
Our Super Learning Lesson will inspire, challenge and improve all of your students learning skills. Using juggling we will help highlight positive attitudes towards learning that will have lasting effects on all of your pupil’s achievements
This day is suitable for all ages – particularly KS2 Primary – Secondary
our learning program
Our professional input into schools arts program gives inspiration to both pupils & staff.
The Day
We start with a learning assembly which using a fun demonstration will help highlight the learning lessons. The pupils are then taught for a minimum of 1hour and a quarter to juggle. We also ask that they compile our questionnaire prior to our lesson and after so we/you can compare the results.
Ideally we also gather together for an assembly at the end of the day to discuss what has been learnt and to further challenge the pupils to progress further themselves and teach their family and friends to juggle.
How it works
Juggling is an excellent model for understanding the learning process and we use it’s very visual and physical nature to help demonstrate learning lessons that can be transferred into all other areas of the curriculum and help transform the pupil’s attitudes towards their learning.
You have to be prepared to drop!
You will find that it is thoughts that pupils and the teachers have about what they can achieve that has a direct influence on what they achieve. When you learn to juggle you have to drop the balls. Without dropping you can not progress – this drop is often perceived as a mistake but it is an absolutely essential part of the learning process. The drop is needed to give information to the brain for it to be able to improve. If pupils are scared of making mistakes or if they perceive what is very much a natural part of learning as ‘doing it wrong’ it will limit the challenges they are prepared to take on and put fear in where it is completely unnecessary.
Step by Step
To learn to juggle you need to break down the skill into its component parts. Starting with one ball we build up the skill.
Appropriate effort
If you watch top athletes, tennis players, footballers, dancers you will see for them to perform to their optimum then a very gentle effort is required. This is never more apparent than in learning to juggle. This understanding of appropriate effort can be referenced again and again be it when reading, in sports or in maths.
Control of learning – Independent learners
During our lesson we place particular emphasis on sitting outside of your learning. If you can watch what you are doing almost as an observer then you can make much better decisions on how to progress. We also encourage pupils to watch and teach each other. By becoming teachers themselves the pupils are given control over their learning and will progress much faster and efficiently.
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