Inside a Thinking Classroom Boys, learning, thinking & excellence with Mike Fleetham Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. Harry Crews Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France

Outcomes Understand and evaluate a range of teaching and learning ideas about: –Boys’ Learning –Thinking Skills –Learning Styles Experience simple, practical ideas to try out in the classroom Consider how these ideas might impact on the implementation of new curriculum and on raising boys’ attainment

Access Express A simple model of teaching & learning… Learning Styles Thinking Skills Multiple Intelligences Process

Average Retention Rate vs Method of Learning National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine 5% 10% 20% 30% 50% 75% 90% 95% Lecture Reading Audio-Visual Demonstration Discussion Group Practice by doing Teach one another Teach and assess one another

Mark out a flip chart page as shown and make sure everyone can write on it at the same time.

INDIVIDUALLY summarise your response to the prompt question into your own space. 4 minutes

PLTS independent enquirers creative thinkers reflective learners team workers self-managers effective participants Reflect individually on how PLTS were needed to succeed in the last activity. How might this influence your own lesson design? Share.

Prof. Howard Gardner, Psychologist There are 8 and a half ways to be clever: Musical, Linguistic, Existential, Naturalist. Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Visual, Mathematical, Bodily

Musical and Linguistic, Existential, Naturalist. Inter- Intrapersonal, Visual, Mathematical Or is it Bodily, Which ones are right for me?

Activity Audit

Research suggests that boys prefer to: –Look –Talk –Move –Laugh –Touch –Compete –Imagine –Be alone or in teams –Take risks –Know where they stand and know what to do How to design to their preferences….

Thinking Starters Captions Odd One Out Thinking Box Slow Reveal What if? 5X5 and 50 more

Thinking Mains Team Reading Glass Bead Game Speed Dating Creative Matrix Chevalier Board

Thinking Desserts AfL in practice Thinking Cubes Line Ups 50 more ways to end a lesson

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