1. Brainstorming The Question What if? The Reverse Developing a Thinking Toolbox ManTar ICT Cluster Workshop 1 Exploring strategies and tools for developing creative and critical thinking

2. Aims To learn more about thinking strategies and skills To gain some practical classroom ideas To discuss which thinking strategies and tools could be used at each level of the school To 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 information 21st 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

8. Relating to others

9. Using language symbols and texts

10. Managing self

11. Participating and contributingDefining these for your school. What is ‘Thinking’? Discuss

13. making decisions

14. shaping actions

17. Know about strategies and tools which develop thinking skills

18. Teach these strategies and tools to our students

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 Taxonomy In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group who developed a classification of levels of thinking behaviours important in the processes of learning.

23. He identified six levels Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation Remembering The 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 new The ability to judge the value of material for a given purpose

24. Anderson’s revised taxonomy Bloom’s Taxonomy wheel Teaching & Learning at each level this term? Discuss

26. Understand

27. Apply

28. Analyse

29. Evaluate

30. CreateGroup work

32. Remember Write a list of all the information you can remember. Understand What were the main ideas? Apply Explain why the man thought the puppy was in the washing machine. Analyse What might have happened when the man opened the washing machine? Evaluate Use a flow chart to show the dangers of household appliances to pets. Create Make a pet danger warning poster for manufacturers to put on washing machines.

33. Bloom’s Wall Poster Question starters and activity suggestions

34. In my blue splayed shoes

35. Planning using Bloom’s Taxonomy Between the Tides Magnets Native Birds

36. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to learn more about Dinosaurs The Life of a Carnivore Remembering List 6 general facts about carnivores. Name and draw some carnivore dinosaurs. What do you know about them? Understanding Write in your own words the daily routine of a carnivore. Applying Draw a 4 frame comic strip of a carnivore dinosaur hunting. Include captions, speech and thought bubbles. Analysing How were the different types of carnivores different from each other? Use illustrations and captions. Evaluating List some ways you think the world and our lifestyle would be different now if the Tyrannosaurus Rex was still alive. Creating Plan your own Jurassic Island. Use symbols and a key to show all the features.

37. Planning Templates Template 1 Template 2

38. Questioning Questioning 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 Pohl Levels 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

44. Why did it happen?

46. What happened? Why did it happen? What happens next? You are the fisherman. Write about your thoughts.

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