Thinking toolbox 1
- 1. BrainstormingThe QuestionWhat if?The ReverseDeveloping a Thinking ToolboxManTar ICT Cluster Workshop 1Exploring strategies and tools for developing creative and critical thinking
- 2. AimsTo learn more about thinking strategies and skillsTo gain some practical classroom ideasTo discuss which thinking strategies and tools could be used at each level of the schoolTo share ideas about facilitation and to prepare a staff meeting workshop
- 5. Knowledge is now a processnot a thingKnowing how to do something is more valuable than memorising information21st Century life is about learning new skills, not new content.Success depends on learning new skills and applying them. What do you (and your students) need to learn when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse click away?
- 6. What doyour students need to memorise?Discuss
- 9. Using language symbols and texts
- 10. Managing self
- 11. Participating and contributingDefining these for your school.What is ‘Thinking’? Discuss
- 12. Thinking is about using creative, critical and metacognitive processes to make sense of information, experiences and ideas.These processes can be applied to purposes such as: developing understanding
- 13. making decisions
- 14. shaping actions
- 15. constructing knowledge (NZC Page 12)Intellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency(NZC Page 12)
- 16. As educators we mustUnderstand what thinking is
- 17. Know about strategies and tools which develop thinking skills
- 18. Teach these strategies and tools to our students
- 19. Use them often in teaching and learningOpening the Thinking ToolboxBrainstormingThe QuestionWhat if?The ReverseDe Bono’sThinking Hats, PMITony Ryan’s Thinker’s KeysGraphic OrganisersONThe learning strategy or frameworkBloom’s TaxonomyThinking behaviours important in the processes of learningLearning to Learn skillsQuestioning and Info Literacy skills Thinking ToolsHabits of MindThinking dispositionsDefining Key Competencies
- 21. The StrategyAn elaborate and systematic plan of action designed to achieve a particular goalThe strategy provides a direction and keeps everything and everyone on track.
- 22. Bloom’s TaxonomyIn 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a groupwho developed a classification of levels of thinking behaviours important in the processes of learning.
- 23. He identified six levelsKnowledgeComprehensionApplicationAnalysisSynthesisEvaluationRememberingThe ability to grasp the meaning of material The ability to use learned material in new ways An understanding of both the content and the structural form of material The ability to put parts together to form something newThe ability to judge the value of material for a given purpose
- 24. Anderson’s revised taxonomyBloom’s Taxonomy wheelTeaching & Learning at each level this term? Discuss
- 25. Bloom’s Taxonomy in the classroomUse video and photos to engage and motivateAfter watching the next video you will be asked to Remember
- 26. Understand
- 27. Apply
- 28. Analyse
- 29. Evaluate
- 30. CreateGroup work
- 32. RememberWrite a list of all the information you can remember. UnderstandWhat were the main ideas? ApplyExplain why the man thought the puppy was in the washing machine.AnalyseWhat might have happened when the man opened the washing machine?EvaluateUse a flow chart to show the dangers of household appliances to pets.CreateMake a pet danger warning poster for manufacturers to put on washing machines.
- 33. Bloom’s Wall PosterQuestion starters and activity suggestions
- 34. In my blue splayed shoes
- 35. Planning using Bloom’s TaxonomyBetween the TidesMagnetsNative Birds
- 36. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to learn more about DinosaursThe Life of a CarnivoreRememberingList 6 general facts about carnivores. Name and draw some carnivore dinosaurs. What do you know about them?UnderstandingWrite in your own words the daily routine of a carnivore.ApplyingDraw a 4 frame comic strip of a carnivore dinosaur hunting. Include captions, speech and thought bubbles.AnalysingHow were the different types of carnivores different from each other? Use illustrations and captions.EvaluatingList some ways you think the world and our lifestyle would be different now if the Tyrannosaurus Rex was still alive.CreatingPlan your own Jurassic Island. Use symbols and a key to show all the features.
- 37. Planning Templates Template 1Template 2
- 38. QuestioningQuestioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread making
- 39. Questioning skills‘Teaching Thinking Skills in the Primary Years – A Whole School Approach’ by Michael PohlLevels of QuestioningThe Seven Servants QTrix Sheet20 Questions (Game and website)
- 40. Ask 2 open and 2 closed questions
- 41. SMART Goal Setting Specific Measureable Action Plan Realistic Timeframe
- 42. SMART Goal setting planning sheet
- 43. Finally ... keep using video to stimulate thinking, talking and writingWhile you watch the next video be thinking about: What happened?
- 44. Why did it happen?
- 45. What do you think might happen next?
- 46. What happened? Why did it happen? What happens next?You are the fisherman. Write about your thoughts.
- 47. www.keepvid.com for downloading streaming videos onto your laptopwww.zamzar.comwill change files types e.g. .wmv into .mp4 or .pdf into .doc format www.vidtomp3will save just the music from a youtube video as an mp3.