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REVIEW OF THINKING SKILLS INITIATIVE

REVIEW OF THINKING SKILLS INITIATIVE. What is the thinking skills initiative?. As part of our specialist status in Humanities, the subjects of Geography, English and RE have initiated the Thinking skills initiative at Loreto.

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REVIEW OF THINKING SKILLS INITIATIVE

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  1. REVIEW OF THINKING SKILLS INITIATIVE

  2. What is the thinking skills initiative? • As part of our specialist status in Humanities, the subjects of Geography, English and RE have initiated the Thinking skills initiative at Loreto. • This is a Government initiative that encourages different departments to work together at improving how students think. • The idea is that students will be given opportunities to transfer the five thinking skills between different subjects and to other aspects of their lives.

  3. National Curriculum Thinking Skills • Information-processing • Reasoning • Enquiry • Creative-thinking • Evaluation

  4. Thinking Skills Strategies • Advance organisers • Analogies • Audience and Purpose • Classifying • Collective Memory • Living Graphs & Fortune Lines • Mysteries • Reading Images • Relational Diagrams • Summarising

  5. Progress so far • 3 Trios of teachers are now involved in the initiative. One in YR10 and two in YR7 (7T and & 7Y) • FOCUS remains on REASONING SKILLS • STRATEGIES this year have been mysteries, living graphs, reading images and collective memory. • In YR7 – Geography, History, Maths and German • In Yr10 (set 2) Re, English and Geography)

  6. What is reasoning? • REASONING includes: • Giving reasons for opinions & actions. • Drawing inferences and making deductions. • Explaining what they think. • Making informed judgements & decisions.

  7. POSITIVE POINTS • Enjoyable & different lessons, despite the groans from the girls who didn’t want to think! • Interesting to see how the activities worked differently with year 7 and YR10 set 2 (compared to YR11 set 1 previously) • Good to have other staff in the lesson to share ideas. It has made staff think about their teaching methods.

  8. Evidence of improvement? • It is very hard to assess whether reasoning has improved. In terms of three cycles of lessons, there is not really enough time to see real progress. • Many of our girls are happy to accept everything and need prompting to develop their answers or challenge each others thinking! • We really need to try to extend their reasoning and prompt them to justify their findings more, in the feedback. • Thinking skills are now being used elsewhere in departments.

  9. READING IMAGES • An example of a strategy is READING IMAGES. • This is basically providing pupils with a photograph or other visual image as a source of information and asking them to annotate or label it. • They are asked to make links to what they already know and should suggest a title for the image. • As with all other thinking strategies, they must be able to explain their thinking to others.

  10. Examples of images • A variety of images could also be given and pupils asked to sequence them. (e.g. cause & effect) • Encourage pupils to make a case for something in the image – different groups of pupils can be given opposing cases. • Encourage more able to move beyond what they actually see, to what it implies or means, thus making more abstract or generalised links. • With most staff now having screens in their classrooms, using images to develop thinking skills should be quite easy to set up.

  11. The future • It is our intention that next year – 2008/2009 a fourth trio of teachers will be set up with further subjects involved. • We will also bring in thinking skills other than reasoning.

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