Product reviews for Full On Learning

`Full On Learning` will inspire school leaders, energise class teachers, provide essential wisdom to politicians and may just recharge those in the profession who have lost their way. 

This is a -˜done with' not a -˜done to' resource. If you're after a series of photocopiable lesson plans, look elsewhere; if you want a guru to make all your classroom challenges go away, it's the next shelf down. But if you are a head teacher seeking inspiration to lead, or a class teacher wanting processes to make learning more relevant, then read on. 

Zoë sets her expectations high. She assumes you to want to prepare your pupils for their 21st century digital futures, not some long-gone mythical golden age; she believes in you as a professional learner and proficient classroom researcher and she offers you a design process for seizing back your passion and your creativity. 

Each of the 12 sections explores an indispensable feature of successful learning, using well-honed text and visuals that support meaning rather than invade it. The book is scattered with genuine action research prompts that engage and challenge classroom practice: -˜What is a risk for me in my own practice' or -˜How do I establish a safe learning community for all learners?' are typical nudges to get us thinking about learning. 

Zoë's standards are high, but they are broad standards of human learning, not restrictive measures of pupil achievement. To apply the book's opening metaphor, Full On Learning is not the hired boat that will take you over one river but the principles, skills, confidence and motivation to build your own and to sail it anywhere.