1. Reflective Thinking Stage 1 © Thinking to Success 2014

2. It is improved with practise.
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Learning is a skill.
It is improved with practise.
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

3. Auditory Visual Kinaesthetic Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
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Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

4. Auditory Visual Kinaesthetic Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Reflective Thinking
Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

5. Auditory Visual Kinaesthetic Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Reflective Thinking
Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

6. Auditory Visual Kinaesthetic Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Reflective Thinking
Adapt to preferred Thinking Styles:
Auditory
Visual
Kinaesthetic
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

7. Good at classroom activities – understand, use working memory
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Why?
Good at classroom activities – understand, use working memory
Problems remembering things done in previous lessons
Reflective thinking helps short term memory
Further work in class - helps long term memory
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

8. Memory: Working Short term Long term
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Memory: Working Short term Long term
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

9. Blooms Taxonomy Reflective Thinking
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

10. Summary of the key words from each lesson
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What?
Simple procedure
Quick
Summary of the key words
from each lesson
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

11. My Brain My learning My knowledge My responsibility My control
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My Brain
My learning
My knowledge
My responsibility
My control
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

12. Establish a routine for recording key words
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How?
Establish a routine for recording key words
Record in jotters, notebooks
or homework planner
every evening
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

13. Routine Using Key Words Adding definitions Applying
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Programme roll out:
Routine
Using Key Words
Adding definitions
Applying
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

14. Which are you already aware of?
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Help finding Key Words
Which are you already aware of?
Teacher uses them at start of next lesson or summing up at the end of the lesson
Appear as headings in your notes/books
Teacher writes them on the board
Used a lot during the lesson
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

15. Homework planner key words example:
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Homework planner key words example:
Monday Homework and notes (Key words) 1. Dictionary words (english) 4. % (maths) 2. Homework planners (PSHE) 5. Stars (art) 3. Les animaux (French) 6. Safety rules (science)
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

16. Jotter key words example
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Jotter key words example
Geography Topic: Rivers 14/9/14 – river profiles 16/9/14 – long & cross profile 17/9/14 – vertical & lateral erosion
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

17. Recording key words is a skill.
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Recording key words is a skill.
It is improved with practise.
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

18. Remember to record your KEY WORDS daily.
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Remember to record your KEY WORDS daily.
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.

19. Reflective Thinking
Learning is a skill which everyone can practice and get better at eg. learning to walk, talk, write essays, add up. When learning new skills like lay-ups in basketball you practise them over and over, getting better the more you practise. Similarly, the brain likes to get exercised and used. The more it is used the better it performs. You have to do the practise but it needn’t be too hard.