Primary Teaching and Learning
Our Teaching and Learning Vision
We teach for the understanding, retention and application of knowledge and the development of transferable learning competencies [communication, critical thinking, creativity and curiosity]. Teaching and learning strategies drive thought and check pupils' understanding – every minute matters.
The GLC Pedagogy Wheel
The GLC Pedagogy Wheel outlines the key principles, tools and strategies our teachers rigorously apply to ensure teaching and learning is consistently good or better.
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The Learning Competencies
We actively teach 4 learning competencies that we believe, if properly integrated into our curriculum, will equip students who leave school to engage in the personal, cultural, economic and social challenges they will inevitably face in their lives.
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The ability to analyse information and ideas and to form reasoned arguments and judgements.
The ability to ask questions and explore how the world works better.
The ability to generate new ideas and to apply them in practice.
The ability to express thoughts and feelings confidently in a range of media and forms.
The Learning model:
Teaching practices and strategies outlined in this policy are underpinned by evidence-informed research and the following model of the learning process, which supports teachers’ understanding of how learning works and informs the deliberate practices they apply:
