Charlotte Davies

Teacher: Economics and Business Studies;

Experiential Learning; and Strategies for Maximising Cognitive Development.

I have always been interested in what makes teaching and learning most effective. I enjoy teaching experientially, but know it takes a long time for teachers to amass such resources, below are some I have put together over my career.

Underlying theories of experiential learning.

Much of my work on learning through games can be found on the EBEA website.

• http://www.ebea.org.uk/teaching_resources/lesson_ideas_and_resources/enterprise/short_term_activities/

• http://www.ebea.org.uk/teaching_resources/lesson_ideas_and_resources/enterprise/medium_term_activities/

• http://www.ebea.org.uk/teaching_resources/lesson_ideas_and_resources/enterprise/long_term_activities/

The experiential learning of Diplomas, Young Enterprise, and other schemes requires a rigorous approach to the use of business tools, to that end I wrote the Business Tool Kit Appendix for Business Education London South, http://www.bels.org.uk/admin/downloads/projects/Diploma%20Toolkit%20July08.pdf . It is not good enough just to act out an activity, it must always come back to intellectual rigour.

My more recent work has built on my understanding of experiential learning and includes the following:

1. A guide to academic pastoral tutoring (html, pdf, doc), which aims to help classroom teachers identify developmental difficulties and strategies for overcoming them to make every child an effective learner.

2. A personal and social education unit for students to understand the latest developments in neurology through games playing. The aim being to help them make more rational and less impulsive decisions in their lives.