Developing a Classroom Culture of Thinking
This workshop looks at what teachers do to develop a thinking culture and what students do within a classroom culture of thinking. A scope and sequence for the teaching of thinking will be presented.

 

Teaching & Learning with Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner's Eight Intelligences are explained, a personal MI inventory will be developed and MI as a planning, instructional and assessment tool for teachers will be discussed.

The Teaching of Complex Thinking
Practical strategies and activities to promote the three "C's" of thinking (critical, creative and caring thinking). Methods of encouraging metacognition will also be discussed.

 

Lift-Off to Learning!!!
Student Engagement and Enquiry Based Learning

This practical workshop is suitable for teachers who may be aware of many thinking strategies and tools, and who wish to examine the various phases and elements of lesson design more closely with the view to understanding where the application of various thinking models and strategies may be most effective in the learning process.

 

Some examples of sessions facilitated regularly include:
Developing a Classroom Culture of Thinking
The Teaching of Complex Thinking
Lift-Off to Learning!!!
Better Questioning
Teaching & Learning with Multiple Intelligences
Linking Thinking and Information Technology
Extended Brainstorming
Infusing Thinking into the Secondary Curriculum
Beyond Bloom's and Gardner

Beyond Bloom's and Gardner

There are at least 80 different models and strategies available as planning structures for teachers.
Rarely do we venture beyond Bloom'n'Gardner
to do so.
A range of models and strategies for teaching and learning will be introduced focussing on:-
~ cognitive aspects of learning ~
~ affective components of learning ~
~ developing critical thinking ~
~ creative thinking ~

Infusing Thinking into the Secondary Curriculum
A range of models and strategies to deliver content with a focus on high order thinking will be introduced and discussed.
A highly practical session with time allowed for teachers to begin planning around some of the frameworks presented.

Extended Brainstorming Beyond Fluency - The Extended Brainstorming Process.
This highly practical session looks at the four cognitive components and four affective components of brainstorming.

Linking Thinking and Information
Technology
The focus of this workshop is on developing students thinking skills as they work with computers. Attention is paid to developing critical thinking and student questioning as they work both on-line and off-line.
Websites to support the teaching of thinking are shared and discussed.

Better Questioning
Amongst other tools, the newly revised
Blooms Taxonomy
 will be discussed as frameworks for developing (in both teacher and students alike), the ability to generate a balanced range of questions requiring qualitatively different types of thinking.