Teaching+Thinking




 * **9:00**


 * 10:30** || **Welcome and Introductions**

Thinking... Requires CONNECTION and REFLECTION for this to take place there must be shared LANGUAGE AND PURPOSE

**LANGUAGE**

Introduction to SOLO Taxonomy

More about SOLO if you want to research it- Pam Hook

[|With your group write your thoughts- What is Thinking????] With your group write your thoughts- What is Learning????

[| Lead Teachers' definitions of thinking? and learning?]


 * Why does it matter?**

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How might SOLO taxonomy guide 'Teaching Thinking'? Inquiry and SOLO taxonomy.

//**Morning tea**// || Problems that reflect the real problems/questions in the world Real life work for deeper understandings Seeing projects through to completion having a real impact Constantly encouraging **connections** and getting students to **articulate their thinking** (metacognition- self talk, the talking in your head- make sure children are aware of this and visual imaging). This promotes behaviours of transference and hopefully will lead to students doing this independently as they have success with this thinking behaviour.
 * **11:00** || ** PURPOSE **
 * Rich Meaningful Tasks**
 * Rich Meaningful Tasks**

[|The Prime Ministers Choice for Teaching Award]

[|Thoughts from video. Place these on the Wallwisher]

Classify 'Thinking Tools' and 'Thinking Concepts' Compare and Contrast- 'Teaching Tools' and 'Teaching Concepts'

[|Creately]

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 * Reflection Tools/ Ideas**



Animal Reflection Habits of Mind Reflection Reflection on a goal (student selected) Reflections over time

The most powerful reflections come from questions What was the most difficult part of that experience? Why? Why do you think that didn't work? What did you notice about...? ||
 * || //**CREATE**//

//**Think**// Choose some future teaching to plan for, what could you do to enhance the common language in the classroom? How could you structure this learning around a meaningful rich problem with a purposeful outcome?

//**Pair**// Talk with your partner about you ideas so far, can you help one another to develop your ideas?

//**Share**// Share your plan with the group, as a group we will try to offer more to each plan and Dave and Disa will offer any appropriate ICT tools or ideas that might add to your planning.

The rest of the day is yours to plan for and develop any tools you need for your class' future learning experiences. You may need to make resources either digitally or physically. This is a self-directed learning time with support. Many of the laminated resources maybe available already made if you would like any of them. Just ask.

//**Resources and Ideas**//

Digital thinking and tool ideas http://thetoolbox.wikispaces.com/

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Sorry I do not have all of the resources I had today stored digitally, I have hardcopies which I can bring to school if people really want them let me know.
 * Resources You May Like **

[|Dice in Dice can be bought from Modern Teaching Aids]

Michael (NEVNS) suggested thinking activities using this picture resource[| http://www.guardian.co.uk/inpictures]
 * General Resources**

Angie (Outram) shared 10ticks Maths site [] as a good resource.





This is not the same as the ones I had, you may want to edit these based on our discussion from today.
 * Goal Setting**


 * Questioning Tools**


 * Reflection Tools**