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Four styles of student-teacher learning partnerships

CPD Pedagogy
The pedagogy of learning partnerships between teachers and students must be flexible depending on the intended goals. Phil Parker introduces four differing approaches.

I have recently worked with a group of schools to develop pedagogy around “learning partnerships”. It has led me to look closely at “team learning”. It is a complex concept because it triggers different definitions and assumptions from teachers – and their students – about how learning can take place collaboratively.

Let me emphasise one key point first of all. In that last sentence I included students in defining the partnership. A partnership is where learning needs to be something done with students – not to them. For this reason students need to understand and be an active part in defining the learning process so that they can contribute to it. 

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