ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on teachers' attention on learning strategies and to encourage in the children an awareness of their own approaches to learning. Observation of classrooms revealed that there were relatively few occasions when attention was directed to the way things are learned or tasks carried out. Techniques to try to open up the issues for teachers included lists of suggestions, outlines of procedures, diary sheets and case studies for discussion, and a manual of exemplars. There has already been a considerable amount of attention paid to 'skills' in the primary sphere. Some schools already have a curricular grid of skills for teachers' guidance in drawing up their syllabuses and class teaching plans. Follow-up interviews with a small number of children explored the children's view of the task-goal and the method used in the class work which had been observed. Before the lessons, the teachers themselves recorded their objectives, and were interviewed afterwards.
