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Using Thinking Strategies in the Classroom
Good thinking does not happen automatically. It must be taught explicitly (on a just-in-time basis), practiced regularly and praised and encouraged when it does occur.
At Te Atatu Intermediate our goal is to empower students to become independent learners who can use a variety of thinking strategies and also transfer them to other aspects of their lives and learning.
To this end, teachers:
- teach vocabulary for talking about thinking
- use thinking diagrams
- give students time to think
- think aloud – model thinking
- facilitate dialogue in groups/pairs
- develop teacher and student questioning
- develop meta cognitive questioning
- make links, scaffold knowledge and skills.
Some of the learning and thinking tools used are:
- Three Story Intellect
- Six Thinking Hats
- Fertile Questioning
- Learning Styles
- Action Learning
- Multiple Intelligences
- Habits of Mind
- Murdoch’s Method
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- “Inspiration” software
- Graphic Orga
More in depth about the
school program can be found at this link.
What's up with this thinking stuff ???
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