Unit - Thinking
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This document discusses developing thinking strategies for students. It outlines the role of staff in keeping thinking and questioning at the forefront through professional development, populating wiki pages, and showcasing good classroom practices. The intended outcomes are for staff to infuse a wide range of thinking strategies into classroom programs and for students to develop these strategies to draw on in their future challenges. It recommends continuing to highlight strategies, adding new ones, and co-constructing an action plan to address strategies on a rotation over several years.
Unit - Thinking
- 1. Thinking Strategies If you don’t change your mind, why bother having one? deBono
- 2. What is this about? Professional development and awareness of the opportunities in regard to thinking strategies To develop a variety of thinking strategies for our students To involve questioning capability in unison with these thinking components
- 3. What is my role? To keep this kaupapa to the forefront Disseminate readings Share links Populate the ‘Thinking & Questioning’ wikipages with relevant content Showcase good practice
- 4. What do we do? PD? PM/PDC’s keep discussions and self awareness to the forefront Wikipages set up as online learning spaces Classroom practice is shared Staff meetings highlight possibilities
- 5. Intended outcomes Continued knowledge building of Kaiako to infuse in to classroom programmes Students with a wide range of thinking strategies A learning community that can draw on many thinking strategies when faced with varying challenges and opportunities in their future
- 6. Succession planning A well resourced repository in the wikipage where the history and background information is given at the start of the page -shared learning instances -resources -links -shared understanding Blooms wiki
- 7. Looking ahead / recommendations Continue to bring these strategies to the forefront in PDC’s, staff mtgs etc Add further to those strategies we are familiar with...AIO/PMI, faces, 1 - 4 rating, some graphic organisers, deBono’s hats, HoM’s T3 & T4 - a thinking strategies focus to be tabled as a classroom observation Recommendations : Co-construct an Action Plan to highlight those strategies that we can address per whare over a 2-3 year rotation
- 8. Update in T4/2011 Yet to have discussion around a possible ‘Overview’ for the year where particular ‘Thinking Strategies’ are highlighted per whare Co-construct this with all staff - primarily in own whare, and then together as a whole staff where all voices are heard and valued