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.

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.

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.

Designing the Thinking Curriculum at your School
This workshop outlines a five-step process that will assist school and curriculum leaders at all levels in implementing a whole-school approach to infusing thinking into the curriculum.
It provides frameworks for ensuring that practices
such as the explicit teaching of thinking becomes an enduring part of the culture of the school and that all students engage in high order thinking in every lesson, every day.

Reading, Writing & Thinking (NZ)

This one-day workshop explores the important connection between
reading, writing and thinking.
It aims to showcase a range of tools
for students that will see them
interacting more deeply with texts
and to assist them in creating their own.

Thinking Through Key Competencies (NZ)
This workshop looks at the key competencies through the lens of thinking … what are the thinking strategies that teachers will need to know, to use and to infuse into curriculum delivery so as to meet the challenges presented by the new framework?

The day will be highly interactive and full of
practical ideas for teaching critical, creative and caring thinking, there-by equipping teachers at all levels of schooling with the tools and strategies that they need in order to confidently address the demands of the key competencies as they deliver the curriculum with a strong thinking focus.

Linking Thinking & Literacy
Developing a Classroom Culture of Thinking
The Teaching of Complex Thinking
Lift Off to Learning!!!
Designing the Thinking Curriculum at your School
Reading, Writing & Thinking (NZ)
Thinking Through the Key Competencies (NZ)
Better Questioning
Teaching & Learning with Multiple Intelligences
Infusing Thinking into the Secondary Curriculum
Beyond Bloom's and Gardner

 

 

A One Day Workshop for Educators

This is one of Michael's most popular workshops. It provides both a direction for schools wishing to get the teaching of thinking embedded within the culture of the school as well as many practical strategies for teachers and students alike.

A wonderful introduction to the thinking curriculum,

Morning Session 9.00 - 10.30

Afternoon Session

 

Better Questioning – Students as Questioners


~ Students as questioners ~
~ Tools for formulating questions,
including Question Mapping ~
~ Metacognition ~

Mid-Morning Session 11.00 - 12.30

Afternoon Session 1.30 - 3.00

Mid-Morning Session

Better Questioning – Teachers as Questioners

~ Questioning – our most powerful technology ~

~ Tools for High Order Questions including:- ~

~ Revised Bloom's Taxonomy ~
~ Divergent Questioning Model ~
~ Pohl's Infusion Matrix ~

 

Michael runs one and two-day professional development workshops in GIFTED EDUCATION.

 

These workshops look at catering for the needs of gifted students in the classroom setting at all levels of schooling.

 

Topics which are included in the Sessions are:

Morning Session

Developing a Classroom Culture of Thinking

Introduction - On the nature of thinking

A Classroom Culture of Thinking
~ What teachers do to develop a culture of thinking ~
~ What students do within a culture of thinking ~
~ A Whole School approach to the explicit
teaching of thinking ~
~ Some examples of approaches ~
~ What might it look like at your school? ~

~ The nature of giftedness ~

~ Characteristics of gifted students and
associated learning needs ~

~ Issues in identifying gifted students
and the tools of identification ~

~ Inclusive planning and programming ~

~ Models and strategies for teaching and learning ~

These workshops can be held in your school or for a cluster of schools by negotiation.

 

  

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.

Linking Thinking & Literacy

The strong focus on improving Literacy outcomes for students in every Australian state requires that students are continuously assessed in their growing ability to engage meaningfully with texts and to be able produce their own writings appropriate to specific
learning purposes.

This one-day workshop explores the important connection between reading, writing and thinking. It looks to equip teachers and students alike with the tools they need to interact more deeply with texts and to create their own.

A highly practical and interactive workshop, the end of the day will see teachers leaving with a range of critical and creative tools that can only serve to enhance literacy outcomes for all students.

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.

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.