Our current research project in secondary schools is seeking to keep children engaged with learning and improve educational outcomes, through the synchronised integration of Science and Art.
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How The Leonardo Effect can help teachers reconnect learning to disengaged children.Our post-primary Key Stage 3 research pilot seeks to build on the success of The Leonardo Effect in Primary Schools, by identifying what further developments need to be made, to ensure that our creative interdisciplinary teaching methodology, can deliver real benefits to teachers and learners in secondary schools. We are seeking to reignite disaffected pupils’ interest in learning, whilst challenging more able learners. |
Why it mattersThe alarming reduction in many pupils’ motivation for learning during the ages of 11 – 14 is well-documented, and when this happens it is unlikely to be reversed. It contributes to worryingly large numbers of young people leaving post-primary education with few qualifications. Pupils’ low self-esteem and passivity in the learning process play critical roles in their disengagement from overly rigid traditional learning approaches.The Leonardo Effect seeks to reverse this disengagement by enabling teachers to use a more creative teaching approach, which uses commonalities between subjects as the basis for providing more engaging learning experiences invested with multiple access points for learners. We hope to prove that this will better engage children, allowing them to develop ideas, become more confident and realise their potential. |
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Key goals of this research study are:
- To ensure that The Leonardo Effect teaching’s methodology can be developed to allow secondary schools to re-enfranchise disaffected pupils, and deliver sustainable improvements in learning outcomes across all ability levels;
- To create an interdisciplinary teaching methodology, which facilitates genuine integration and flexibility of subject learning, to the benefit of learners and teaching professionals, whilst retaining whole curriculum coherency;
- To create autonomous self-motivated learners, who using their curiosity as a catalyst, can become increasingly committed and confident pupils, and rapidly accrue transferable skills.
Additional information about the success of The Leonardo Effect's Science and Art based
interdisciplinary teaching approach can be downloaded below
The Leonardo Effect Fact Sheet. Find out how we can assist you to remove the barriers to learning, and allow education to re-connect with hard to reach pupils. Download here. |
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Delivering better learning outcomes. The best validation of the The Leonardo Effect's ability to dramatically improve learning outcomes, comes from the testimonials of schools already using our approach. Download them here. |
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In the Press: The Leonardo Effect's ability to transform children’s educational outcomes and school performance
has attracted much positive comment.
Times Educational Supplement, Daily Mail, Herald, START, Primary Science Review.