Skill focus: Creating Independent Learners

This lesson explores with your students the value and importance of independent learning - an essential life skill.

It sets up and contextualizes the power of this through an engaging starter which tells the true story of an experiment which has proved the potential of it - a must read for teachers in general

Students are then encouraged to devise a success criteria for independent learning through discussion, analysis and evaluation.

Following this, the groups set of to market what they learn for a specific topic - in this case I chose poetry (as an intro to iGCSE), but you can use this for pretty much anything.

Finally, students must ‘market’ what they have learned through their chosen form.

Plenary - Students refer back to the established criteria for independent learning and self assess their performance.

You could also have them evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of it.

This may span over 2 lessons.