1. SOLO Taxonomy SOLO Taxonomy

2. What level is your understanding of SOLO taxonomy

3. SOLO (Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes) is a model of learning that helps develop a common understanding & language of learning that helps teachers (and students) understand the learning process.

4. Prestructural I’m not sure about this subject Prestructural Unistructural I have one idea about this subject Unistructural Multistuctrural I have several ideas about this subject Multistuctrural Relational I can link my ideas together to see the big picture… Relational Extended abstract I can look at these ideas in a new and different way. Extended abstract I can look at these ideas in a new and different way.

5. “SOLO Taxonomy provides a simple and robust way of describing how learning outcomes grow in complexity from surface to deep understanding” Biggs & Collis 1982

6.  thoughtfully design learning intentions and learning experiences  identify and use effective success criteria  provide feedback and feed forward on learning outcomes  reflect meaningfully on what to do next

7.  How should we show that “progress” has been made in a lesson (or 20 minutes of a lesson)?  Numbers? Letters?

8. LINK…..

9.  In your teams think about an upcoming topic, lesson or unit of work and its themes.  Can you link those themes together?

10.  Getting to extended abstract requires you to pose abstract questions: Does Shakespeare influence all modern writers?  But, in order to answer these questions students need a big multistructural base of knowledge  Students need to see that progress depends on finding the relationships between this knowledge

12. SOLO levelVerbs Unistructur al define, identify, name. draw, find, label, match, follow a simple procedure Multistuctur al describe, list, outline, complete, continue, combine Relationalsequence, classify, compare & contrast, explain (cause & effect), analyse, form an analogy, organise, distinguish, question, relate, apply Extended abstract generalise, predict, evaluate, reflect, hypothesise, theorise, create, prove, justify, argue, compose, prioritise, design, construct, perform

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