1. Wednesday 16 June 2010 e5 A closer look atELABORATE

2. explain explore elaborate evaluate engage

3. Capabilities Monitors progress Facilitates substantive conversation Cultivates higher order thinking

4. Lower-order thinking occurs when students are asked to receive or recite factual information or to employ rules and algorithms through repetitive routines. Students are given pre specified knowledge ranging from simple facts and information to more complex concepts. Such knowledge is conveyed to students through a reading, worksheet, lecture or other direct instructional medium.

6. Higher-order thinking requires students to manipulate information and ideas in ways that transform their meaning and implications. This transformation occurs when students combine facts and ideas in order to synthesise, generalise, explain, hypothesise or arrive at some conclusion or interpretation. Manipulating information and ideas Through these processes allows students to solve problems and discover new (for them) meanings and understandings.

7. A Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives Originally developed in the 1950s by Benjamin Bloom and colleagues. It is a means of expressing qualitatively different kinds of thinking.

8. This taxonomy continues to be one of the most universally applied models. It provides a way to organise thinking skills into six levels, from the most basic to the more complex levels of thinking.

9. Original Terms New Terms EvaluationCreating Synthesis Evaluating Analysis Analysing ApplicationApplying ComprehensionUnderstanding Knowledge Remembering

10. Primary: Choose those words from the Bloom’s list that students at your level would understand. Now highlight those words that YOU have used in your teaching this term. Secondary: There will be many students that would understand all of the words in the Bloom’s list. Highlight those words that YOU have used in your teaching this term.

11. Substantive conversations can be aided by the development of high-order questions.

12. GRAPHIC ORGANISERS http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/preptoyear10/ tools/graphicorganisers.htm http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/graphic/index.html http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/