Learning seminar courses that teach students how to learn by addressing behaviors, mindsets, and habits that undermine learning¶

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Description¶

Gateway offers learning seminar courses and reading intervention classes as part of its system of supports. The report states that "The learning seminar courses are designed to help students learn how to learn—students identify different behaviors, mindsets, or habits that undermine learning and receive feedback on the implementation of various strategies that can help to address those barriers." The middle school also uses Process of Learning rubrics focused on prosocial and pro-academic habits and mindsets.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Feedback on students' implementation of strategies, plus tools such as Process of Learning rubrics focusing on the how of learning

Constraints¶

• Offered as a suite of courses alongside, not instead of, integrated supports in general education classrooms

Target Learners¶

• middle and high school students, including those reading below grade level

Target Learning Goals¶

• metacognition and learning strategies
• self-regulation and habits that support learning

Related Strategies¶

• Inclusion model in which students with learning disabilities take general education classes with additional supports
• Gateway guiding principles and structures — the whole-school design this practice belongs to

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Cook-Harvey, C. M., Flook, L., Efland, E., & Darling-Hammond, L. (2020). Teaching for powerful learning: Lessons from Gateway Public Schools. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. http://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/social-and-emotional-learning-case-study-gateway