What are thinking skills?
Foundations of Teaching and Foundations of Teaching and Learningg Course 1: Introduction W k Thi ki Ab L Week 2: Thinking About Learning i Lecture 2.2: Thinking about Thinking g g
Thi ki b hi ki Thinking about thinking What are thinking skills? D ’ ll hi k ll h i ? Don’t we all think all the time? Does it need special skills to think? If so, can those skills be learned? Can they be taught?
Thinking Skills Mental processes we use to do things such as: Think about thinking g Draw on a range of ‘intelligences’ Think divergently: create new ideas Develop problem solving strategies Weigh up different possible decisions Brainstorm questions Organise information
MYST routine MYST routine ME
How do I model thinking? How do I H d I d l thi ki ? H d I make my own thinking visible?
YOU
How do I make my students’ thinking H d I k d ’ hi ki visible?
SPACE
How is the environment of the H i h i f h classroom organized to help facilitate thinking?
TIME
How can I give thinking more time in my classroom? How does thinking change over time?
h k d See think wonder What do you see? What do you think about that? b h ? What does it make you wonder about?
h k d See think wonder I see I think I wonder
A circle of viewpoints I AM THINKING OF FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF…… …the viewpoint you ve chosen …the viewpoint you’ve chosen (for example the adult, the child) I THINK… f from that viewpoint. Take on the th t i i t T k th character of your viewpoint A QUESTION I HAVE FROM THIS Q VIEWPOINT IS….. Ask a question from this viewpoint
330 Thinking questions gq Why ? What ? When ? Where ? How ? Is it better than…? What do you think ? Imagine that… ? h ? What if…? Do you need some thinking Wh if ? D d hi ki time ? Why not ? Is it worse than…? What are the facts ? How do you feel ? What are the p problems ? What are the good things ? When g g do you want to think about this ? How do you want to learn this ? Can you do it a different way ? Do you see it ? Do you understand ? Can you t h it t teach it to someone else ? Can you use your l ? C idea somewhere else ? Can you split up the problem ? Can you dance it, sing it, draw it, write it, paint it, make it ? How can we think this out ? p Are you ready to learn? Are you ready to think? How do you want to learn? How do you want to think? http://www.thinkingclassroom.co.uk/linkclick.aspx?fi leticket=240
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Achievement
Talent
I used to think
Now I think
Foundations of Teaching and Foundations of Teaching and Learningg Course 1: Introduction W k Thi ki Ab L Week 2: Thinking About Learning i Lecture 2.2: Thinking about Thinking g g
Thi ki b hi ki Thinking about thinking What are thinking skills? D ’ ll hi k ll h i ? Don’t we all think all the time? Does it need special skills to think? If so, can those skills be learned? Can they be taught?
Thinking Skills Mental processes we use to do things such as: Think about thinking g Draw on a range of ‘intelligences’ Think divergently: create new ideas Develop problem solving strategies Weigh up different possible decisions Brainstorm questions Organise information
MYST routine MYST routine ME
How do I model thinking? How do I H d I d l thi ki ? H d I make my own thinking visible?
YOU
How do I make my students’ thinking H d I k d ’ hi ki visible?
SPACE
How is the environment of the H i h i f h classroom organized to help facilitate thinking?
TIME
How can I give thinking more time in my classroom? How does thinking change over time?
h k d See think wonder What do you see? What do you think about that? b h ? What does it make you wonder about?
h k d See think wonder I see I think I wonder
A circle of viewpoints I AM THINKING OF FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF…… …the viewpoint you ve chosen …the viewpoint you’ve chosen (for example the adult, the child) I THINK… f from that viewpoint. Take on the th t i i t T k th character of your viewpoint A QUESTION I HAVE FROM THIS Q VIEWPOINT IS….. Ask a question from this viewpoint
330 Thinking questions gq Why ? What ? When ? Where ? How ? Is it better than…? What do you think ? Imagine that… ? h ? What if…? Do you need some thinking Wh if ? D d hi ki time ? Why not ? Is it worse than…? What are the facts ? How do you feel ? What are the p problems ? What are the good things ? When g g do you want to think about this ? How do you want to learn this ? Can you do it a different way ? Do you see it ? Do you understand ? Can you t h it t teach it to someone else ? Can you use your l ? C idea somewhere else ? Can you split up the problem ? Can you dance it, sing it, draw it, write it, paint it, make it ? How can we think this out ? p Are you ready to learn? Are you ready to think? How do you want to learn? How do you want to think? http://www.thinkingclassroom.co.uk/linkclick.aspx?fi leticket=240
Sparse p
Achievement
Talent
I used to think
Now I think
Foundations of Teaching and Foundations of Teaching and Learningg Course 1: Introduction W k Thi ki Ab L Week 2: Thinking About Learning i Lecture 2.2: Thinking about Thinking g g
