School Improvement Service Sue Atkinson – Science Consultant Developing Thinking Skills.

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School Improvement Service Sue Atkinson – Science Consultant Developing Thinking Skills

School Improvement Service Starter Activity 1: Maths puzzle Your task is: Using numbers 1-8, to put a number in each circle so that…. No two consecutive numbers must be in adjacent or connected circles. To be able to explain how you did it!

School Improvement Service Learning outcomes By the end of this session you will…… have tried out a variety of strategies have had time to reflect on how you could adapt these to use in schools. know where to go to find out more.

School Improvement Service Can thinking be taught? Regardless of our age, perceived ability or background, we can all improve our thinking with encouragement, guidance and practice.

School Improvement Service Can thinking be taught? Six key principles for teaching thinking: Active – explore ideas Meaningful – relevant to everyday life Challenging – cognitive challenge Collaborative – differences of opinion Mediated – act as guide/adviser Reflective – what/how they have learnt

School Improvement Service The five ‘Thinking skills’ which pupils need to develop, as defined in Curriculum 2000 are: Information-processing skills eg. Sort, classify, sequence, analyse relationships Reasoning skills eg. Give reasons for opinions and actions, draw inferences, make deductions, making judgements informed by evidence Enquiry skills eg. Ask relevant questions, pose and define problems, predict outcomes, anticipate consequences Creative thinking skills eg. Generate and extend ideas, suggest hypotheses, look for alternative outcomes Evaluation skills eg. Evaluate information, develop criteria for judging the value of their own and others’ work

School Improvement Service Activity 2:Collective memory Your task is to work as a team to make a copy of the poster onto A3 paper. Try to ensure you include the key messages and information. Each member of the team, in turn, will only get 30 secs to look at the poster.

School Improvement Service What is the most powerful learning that has taken place here? The strategies devised by the group The conversations taking place The collaboration

School Improvement Service Activity 3:Carousel You will have 3 minutes at each ‘station’ to try out the activity. Complete the task by ticking the relevant boxes on the grid, to record which thinking skills are used in each activity. Then think about if/ how you might use/adapt each one for your students.

School Improvement Service For effective group work: Children need to be taught how to work well in groups Structure the task: ‘Chunk’ it up into smaller steps Give clear time limits - and stick to them! (use a countdown timer on screen?) Give clear success criteria – what are they trying to achieve? Learning objectives and outcomes should emphasise skills, not just knowledge.

School Improvement Service TEEP Visual Tools The booklets provide a range of further ideas and strategies to promote thinking skills, with templates to use. The bookmarks provide a useful reminder of some of these ideas to keep handy. You have 3 mins to look at these resources and consider how you might use them

School Improvement Service Where to get more ideas from? Thinkers Keys for Kids By Tony Ryan, Special Needs (G&T) consultant, Queensland, Australia 20 Thinkers Keys to stimulate thinking

School Improvement Service Where to get more ideas from? Visit the TeachFind website at and ‘search’ for either ‘Thinking skills’ or ‘Leading in learning’, in either Primary or Secondary phase. Subject-specific exemplars

School Improvement Service Where to get more ideas from? Teaching Thinking Pocketbook A troubleshooting approach takes five types of thinking that students typically struggle with - processing information; reasoning; inquiry; creative thinking; evaluation - and matches then with 'thinking tools'. Available from Amazon for £ free delivery

School Improvement Service Where to get more ideas from? Go to (then to Teaching & Learning/ Science/Thinking skills) for all the resources from this sessionwww.yorkla.org

School Improvement Service Summary: To stimulate thinking ….. It is NOT about giving pupils the right answer. Rather, it is about developing the skills needed through learning which is: Active– exploring ideas Meaningful – relevant to everyday life Challenging – cognitive challenge Collaborative – differences of opinion Mediated – act as guide/adviser Reflective – on what/how they have learnt

School Improvement Service How might this impact on your work with pupils? Think of 2 ‘golden nuggets’ you might take away from this session to try out back in schools. Reflection- so what now?