Transferring Skills
Recognise when a skill or strategy learned in one subject or situation can be applied in a completely different one
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Teaching Table
Set out your lesson
Transfer a useful strategy to a new setting and explain the adaptation.
Follow this model in an accessible mode before attempting independent work. Graph ordering is not learner mastery; revisit prerequisites if the guided task still needs full modeling.
Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.
Use invented tasks rather than requiring personal school history. A transfer attempt may fail usefully. Open Show (S), then Guided (G), then Try (T). Hide earlier work and keys before Try. Use only the supplied stage material; do not invent additional cards. Pause or split the session if needed.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Recognise when a skill or strategy learned in one subject or situation can be applied in a completely different one
Source evidence entries name research traditions rather than attainment criteria. Two hypothetical transfer opportunities do not establish spontaneous transfer in real life.
- blocked: transfer of learning research
Canonical evidence names a research tradition, not an observable skill criterion. Preserved verbatim; no citation or attainment invented.
- blocked: Perkins & Salomon transfer taxonomy
Canonical evidence names a research tradition, not an observable skill criterion. Preserved verbatim; no citation or attainment invented.
- partial: Has {{name}} ever spotted that something they learned in one subject — like a way of organising information — could help them in a completely different one?
Source evidence entries name research traditions rather than attainment criteria. Two hypothetical transfer opportunities do not establish spontaneous transfer in real life.
Source evidence entries name research traditions rather than attainment criteria. Two hypothetical transfer opportunities do not establish spontaneous transfer in real life.
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Learning resources
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The teaching approach above still stands. Curated practice links will appear here as the shelf fills.
Check understanding
- transfer of learning research
- Perkins & Salomon transfer taxonomy
“Has your child ever spotted that something they learned in one subject — like a way of organising information — could help them in a completely different one?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Learning to Learn
- Domain
- Learning to Learn
- Age range
- Ages 8–9