Independent Learning

Increase your students’ capacity for learning

At the heart of “Lifelong learning”, “Independent learning” and “Autonomous learning” is the aim of strengthening students’ capacity to learn. Sustained Success brings together the best in the world of education to help your students be more:

• Curious and questioning
• Independent and convivial
• Imaginative and playful
• Thoughtful and careful

James Nottingham, the Sustained Success director, has presented at major international conferences and worked with schools around the world on the topic of Independent Learning. Using his framework for teaching and learning, the Learning Pit, the teachers he has worked with are now more able to challenge and provide feedback at consistently high levels. This in turn is helping their students to be more independent, thoughtful and resilient students.

His colleague, Martin Renton, has led the development of the acclaimed Northumberland Thinking Skills Certificate for many years in secondary schools and FE colleges across the British Isles, a scheme that has been shown time and again to develop independent inquiry and learning skills with students of all ages and abilities.

James, Martin and our Sustained Success associates can offer you support with:

1. Planning for Independent Learning
2. Embedding Philosophy for Children and the community of enquiry into your curriculum, an approach that really gets at the heart of Independent Learning
3. Infusing any of the techniques from de Bono, Feuerstein, Newcastle Thinking Skills, Habits of Mind, Dramatic Enquiry, or Myers Briggs
4. Coaching colleagues to build their confidence with any of the techniques listed above
5. Demonstration lessons with any group of students

See also: Teaching Thinking     P4C     SEAL     Creative Thinking     James's Bio     Martin's Bio 

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“I guess I could call myself smart. I mean I usually get good grades. Sometimes I worry though that I’m not equipped to achieve what I want, that I’m just a tape recorder repeating back what I’ve heard. I worry that once I’m out of school and people don’t keep handing me information with questions…I’ll be lost.” (Hayley, Year 12 Student, 2006)