Jill Nottingham – författare

What are the goals of Early Years education? A lot of people ask this question and receive answers ranging from keeping children safe; introducing them to the values of society; encouraging a love of language; giving them experience of socialising, harmonising and behaving appropriately. This book shares the best strategies to help children grow into even more curious, resilient, happy, articulate and thoughtful learners.Challenging Early Learning takes James Nottingham's tried and tested and acclaimed 'learning to learn' methodology and applies it to teaching three- to seven-year-olds. Each chapter includes: Colourful and stimulating learning activities that will help children learn how to learn. Practical 'Now Try This' sections that encourage readers to think about current practice and explore new ideas. A Review section that focuses on building a broad tool kit of teaching strategies. Covering a range of key topics such as feedback, dialogue, growth mindset and the Learning Pit, this book is aimed at all pedagogues, teachers, parents and leaders wanting to challenge the way in which we learn and make learning more challenging.

What are the goals of Early Years education? A lot of people ask this question and receive answers ranging from keeping children safe; introducing them to the values of society; encouraging a love of language; giving them experience of socialising, harmonising and behaving appropriately. This book shares the best strategies to help children grow into even more curious, resilient, happy, articulate and thoughtful learners.Challenging Early Learning takes James Nottingham's tried and tested and acclaimed 'learning to learn' methodology and applies it to teaching three- to seven-year-olds. Each chapter includes: Colourful and stimulating learning activities that will help children learn how to learn. Practical 'Now Try This' sections that encourage readers to think about current practice and explore new ideas. A Review section that focuses on building a broad tool kit of teaching strategies. Covering a range of key topics such as feedback, dialogue, growth mindset and the Learning Pit, this book is aimed at all pedagogues, teachers, parents and leaders wanting to challenge the way in which we learn and make learning more challenging.

This book is an accessible guide to helping boost your child’s language, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities outside of the classroom. Packed full of learning activities for children and teaching advice for parents, this book is specifically designed to support parents engaging your children in thought-provoking conversations and problem-solving strategies.Divided into two parts, the authors first guide readers through "Learning Pit" theory, then present a range of lesson suggestions and useful resources for parents to draw on. This book will give you: ideas for learning with friends and family tools to ensure your children make the most of the feedback resource cards and practical suggestions with each activity confidence in your ability to impact your child’s learningThe perfect resource for parents supporting learning outside of school, School’s Out, Learning’s In will help you to boost your child’s language, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities.

This book is an accessible guide to helping boost your child’s language, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities outside of the classroom. Packed full of learning activities for children and teaching advice for parents, this book is specifically designed to support parents engaging your children in thought-provoking conversations and problem-solving strategies.Divided into two parts, the authors first guide readers through "Learning Pit" theory, then present a range of lesson suggestions and useful resources for parents to draw on. This book will give you: ideas for learning with friends and family tools to ensure your children make the most of the feedback resource cards and practical suggestions with each activity confidence in your ability to impact your child’s learningThe perfect resource for parents supporting learning outside of school, School’s Out, Learning’s In will help you to boost your child’s language, curiosity, and problem-solving abilities.

Using feedback to enhance learning Feedback has the potential to dramatically improve student learning – if done correctly. In fact, providing high quality feedback is one of the most critical roles of a teacher. But if feedback is not done correctly it can have a minimal – or even negative effect – on learning. Challenging Learning Through Feedback provides educators with the tools they need to establish clear learning intentions and success criteria in order to craft high quality feedback and avoid common feedback mistakes. Readers will learnWhen feedback is (and isn’t) workingHow to design feedback so that it answers three essential questionsStrategies for crafting clear Learning Intentions and Success CriteriaHow to teach students to give high quality feedback to themselves and othersWritten by educational innovators James Nottingham and Jill Nottingham, this book is full of specific examples for educators who want to understand the qualities of excellent feedback and how to craft it.  "Feedback – a noun or a verb? A separate practice or an integral part of the learning process? Something we do ‘to students’ or ‘with students’? The Nottinghams sort it all out for us – the ‘what,’ ‘why,’ and ‘how’ of the process and the practice of feedback."Barb Pitchford, Co-authorLeading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy (2016)"Finally a practical book on feedback for teachers! It is written with the teacher in mind, lesson plan in hand, and relevant to all in education. The perfect school-wide study book!"Lisa Cebelak, Education ConsultantGrand Rapids, MI

Dialog kan, om den används rätt, vara ett kraftfullt redskap i undervisningen – den hjälper eleverna att koppla samman begrepp och kontext, idéer och frågor, den skapar sammanhang mellan förkunskaper och nytt lärande. En god dialog fördjupar förståelsen, samtidigt som den bygger upp kunskaper och vidgar perspektiven.Här berättar James Nottingham om boken Utmanande dialog. 

I Utmanande dialog har James Nottingham tillsammans med medförfattarna Jill Nottingham och Martin Renton, sammanfattat de bästa sätten att med hjälp av dialoger underlätta för eleverna att gå ifrån att »ha kunskap« till att »verkligen förstå«.

"Jag blir inspirerad av boken och med den som handledning kommer jag att försöka föra in dialogen mer medvetet i min undervisning."Marianne Ericson, BTJ-häftet nr 22, 2016. Läs hela recensionen här.

I varje kapitel finns övningar och strategier att använda för att utveckla dialogen i undervisningen, men även verktyg för reflektion kring den egna undervisningen för en förbättrad pedagogik.

Utmanande dialog är undervisningsnära och vänder sig i första hand till lärare, men är relevant för samtliga pedagoger och även skolledare. 

Boken är rik på strategier, tips, övningar och exempel. Du får exempelvis handledning i hur du:

engagerar dina elever i kvalitativ dialog,skapar ett förtroendefullt klimat,skapar rutiner för att utveckla resonemang,kan arbeta med dialog i små och stora grupper. 

 

 

 

Återkoppling av hög kvalitet stödjer lärandet kraftfullt, men det finns också återkoppling som ger minimal eller rentav negativ påverkan.

I den här boken reder författarna ut begreppen och vi får veta vilken sorts återkoppling som är effektiv, i vilken omfattning den bör ges och när. Här presenteras nyskapande modeller och verktyg för lärande. I varje kapitel finns strategier och övningar som gynnar den typ av återkoppling som för våra elevers lärande framåt.

Boken vänder sig i första hand till lärare och pedagoger, men är relevant även för skolledare.