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SOLO Taxonomy. Where are you at now? . What level is your understanding of SOLO taxonomy. What is it?.
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SOLO Taxonomy
Where are you at now? What level is your understanding of SOLO taxonomy
What is it? 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.
5 typical ways to answer a question Unistructural I have one idea about this subject Prestructural I’m not sure about this subject Multistuctrural I have several ideas about this subject • Extended abstract • I can look at these ideas in a new and different way. • Relational • I can link my ideas together to see the big picture…
“SOLO Taxonomy provides a simple and robust way of describing how learning outcomes grow in complexity from surface to deep understanding” Biggs & Collis 1982
With SOLO we can… • 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
Why? • How should we show that “progress” has been made in a lesson (or 20 minutes of a lesson)? • Numbers? Letters?
Children reaching the relational stage using hexagons LINK…..
Reaching the relational stage using post its • In your teams think about an upcoming topic, lesson or unit of work and its themes. • Can you link those themes together?
Getting to ‘extended abstract’ • 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