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Cluster Sharing. Wednesday 16 June 2010 e5 A closer look at ELABORATE. explain explore elaborate evaluate engage. ELABORATE. Capabilities Monitors progress Facilitates substantive conversation
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Cluster Sharing Wednesday 16 June 2010 e5 A closer look at ELABORATE
explain explore elaborate evaluate engage
ELABORATE Capabilities Monitors progress Facilitates substantive conversation Cultivates higher order thinking
Low Order Thinking 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.
High Order Thinking 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.
Bloom’s Taxonomy 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.
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.
1990s - Lorin Anderson revisited the taxonomy Original Terms New Terms Evaluation Creating Synthesis Evaluating Analysis Analysing Application Applying Comprehension Understanding Knowledge Remembering
Building our thinkingBloom’s Verbs 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.
Using question stems Substantive conversations can be aided by the development of high-order questions.
Higher Order Thinking Tools 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/