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USING THINKING SKILLS TO INVESTIGATE GEOGRAPHY. Alison Vaughan whsav@rgfl.org a.vaughan85@gmail.com. P ersonal, L earning and T hinking S kills. QCA:
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USING THINKING SKILLS TO INVESTIGATE GEOGRAPHY Alison Vaughan whsav@rgfl.org a.vaughan85@gmail.com
QCA: “QCA has developed a framework for describing personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS) that applies to all young people aged 11-19…The aims of the [new] curriculum are that young people should become successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens.”
The Thinking Skills Strategies • Advance Organisers • Analogies • Audience and Purpose • Classifying • Collective Memory • Fortune Lines • Living Sources • Mysteries • Odd One Out • Reading Images and 5Ws • Relational Diagrams • Summarizing
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Designing an animal to live in a Rainforest Looking for clues in pictures Packing a suitcase Interpreting Climate Graphs Redesigning a shanty town Card Sort Who killed Chico Mendez?
Metacognitive Plenary • Focus on explanation of choices • Reasons are more important that the choices made! • Allow time to review choices made • Allow students time to share ideas • Evaluate skills used, especially how decisions have been made