1 / 10

Developing Thinking Skills YSIS 2011 Sue Atkinson – Science Consultant

Developing Thinking Skills YSIS 2011 Sue Atkinson – Science Consultant Alan Easterbrook –Maths Consultant. 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.

eve-pearson
Download Presentation

Developing Thinking Skills YSIS 2011 Sue Atkinson – Science Consultant

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Developing Thinking Skills YSIS 2011 Sue Atkinson – Science Consultant Alan Easterbrook –Maths Consultant

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. Activity 3: Carousel • You will have 5 minutes at each ‘station’ to complete 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.

  9. Where to get more ideas from? • Visit the DCSF website at http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/ and ‘search’ for either ‘Thinking skills’ or ‘Leading in learning’, in either Primary or Secondary phase. • Teaching Thinking Pocketbook

  10. Reflection- so what now? 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 school.

More Related