All You ever wanted to know about learning and teaching but were too cool to ask.

Hi all

The next EDDG meetings will take place Monday 1st March, 1.15-2.15, and Wednesday 3rd March, 12.30-1.30. Both meetings will be in room 810.

The discussion will focus on Frank Coffield’s recent booklet ‘All you ever wanted to know about learning and teaching, but were too cool to ask’. In this booklet he offers students some of the latest thinking on learning to help them become better learners, while the learners offer some practical and constructive recommendations to improve teaching. This is a follow-up to his last publication ‘Just supposing teaching and learning were to become the first priority’, which we discussed at EDDG in September 2008.

This recent booklet is in 2 parts. In the first part he talks directly to students about learning and teaching, while in the second part he draws from students’ experiences to offer some insights and advice. He also outlines, in summary form, what he thinks governments, Senior Management Teams (SMT’s) and lecturers could do to ensure that teaching and learning remain a first priority. A copy of these summaries will be posted on the wall of the staff room and the resource base in 218.

For the purposes of the EDDG discussion, it may be as well to focus on the second part of the booklet which focuses on the role of teachers, tutors and senior managers.