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Subject Pedagogy: Promoting a Love of Learning - Secondary

Enhance your knowledge and understanding of how to promote a love of learning amongst your pupils.

839 enrolled on this course

  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    10 hours
Overview
Requirements

Explore the importance of promoting a love of learning in your pupils

This course will encourage you to explore what pupil learning looks like in different schools and subject areas to inform your own practice and improve your teaching skills. You will have the chance to discover the importance of fostering a positive learning environment and a classroom culture with learning at its heart.

The course will also give you the chance to explore the importance of demonstrating a love of learning to your pupils, through promoting the value of scholarship and mastery within a subject, as well as helping pupils find something in each subject that they enjoy.

What topics will you cover?

Explore the importance of promoting a love of learning in your pupils, and understand the positive impact on pupils’ lives and further education outcomes

  • Hidden curriculum
  • Building understanding – modelling a growth mindset though explanations, questions and conversations
  • Helping pupils to understand that not everyone is good at everything

Reflect on what impacts pupil learning to inform your own practice and improve your teaching skills

  • Nature versus nurture – how family values, experience and situation impact learning
  • What pupil learning looks like in different schools and subject areas
  • Knowing your pupils

Develop an understanding of the importance of fostering a positive learning environment in the classroom

  • Adapting teaching for different situations
  • Creating a classroom culture where learning is at its heart
  • Developing intrinsic motivation
  • Helping pupils find something in each subject that they enjoy

Demonstrate a love of learning to your pupils to pique their intellectual curiosity through subject pedagogy

  • Scholarship – promoting the value of scholarship and mastery in a subject
  • Planning lessons to promote a love of learning
  • Making the tasks subject specific, not the content
  • How does homework and out of class activities promote pupils’ love of learning?

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Explore the importance of promoting a love of learning in your pupils, and understand the positive impact on pupils’ lives and further education outcomes
  • Reflect on what impacts pupil learning to inform your own practice and improve your teaching skills
  • Develop an understanding of the importance of fostering a positive learning environment in the classroom
  • Demonstrate a love of learning to your pupils to pique their intellectual curiosity through subject pedagogy

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for PGCE trainees.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

Join a global classroom

  • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
  • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
  • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

Map your progress

  • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
  • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control

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