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- Classroom Culture of Thinking. Create a classroom culture that values thinking, learning, and intellectual development. Start with thinking tasks that are separate from your curriculum.
- Opportunities to Think in Groups. Provide opportunities for students to think and engage in meaningful group learning experiences. The Thinking Classroom practices emphasize “visibly random groups” that change frequently.
- Vertical and Non-permanant Workspaces. You may have noticed that the traditional method of having students sit at their desks and take notes is only sometimes the best way to promote active thinking in your classroom.
- Room Layout. Research has shown that traditional, front-facing classrooms promote passive learning. At the same time, a more flexible, de-fronted setup—where students are free to face any direction—can be much more effective in promoting active thinking and engagement.
- Set open-ended challenges. Open-ended challenges do not have a single, absolutely correct answer or a single way of arriving at a correct answer. They enable learners, for example, to respond creatively, construct their own meaning, and develop strategies and solutions which they see as personal – they spark pupils’ curiosity and create a ‘need to know’.
- Make thinking important. If we want learners to see thinking as important, we need to provide time and space for it to happen in the classroom. We need to allow students time to think before responding to questions and time to reflect on and talk about their learning.
- Make thinking explicit. We learn a lot by watching, imitating and adapting what we see. Imagine trying to learn to dance when the dancers around us are all invisible.
- Ask ‘rich’ questions. We can develop our students' ability to think more skilfully by asking ‘rich’ questions. They are rich because they can draw out a wealth of possible responses regarding knowledge, know-how, thoughts, feelings and speculations.
Sep 4, 2019 · For decades, there has been evidence that classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process produces better educational outcomes at virtually all levels. And a new Harvard study suggests it may be important to let students know it.
- What Are Thinking Strategies?
- What Sorts of Thinking Strategies Help Learners?
- How Do Learners Use Thinking Strategies?
- Critical Thinking Strategies For Driving The Curriculum
- Unit Planning Using Thinking Strategies
Critical thinking skills are essential to educational attainment and civic responsibility. We all want our students to develop these attributes alongside emotional intelligence skills. When we talk about critical thinking strategies it is not always clear what this actually is. For the purpose of this article, we are examining them from a classroom...
For the purpose of this article, we are focusing on visual thinking strategies that help students organise their thinking. These are the types of strategies that a school seamlessly integrate into everyday classroom life. At Structural Learning, we are particularly interested in academic competency development. By this we mean, enabling a pupil to ...
There have been many studies in the field of education that have reported positive impacts from the development of critical thinking strategies. The Education Endowment Foundation has been one of the most recent organisations to focus in on this area. In schools, this area is often referred to as metacognition. The visual thinking strategies that w...
The Education Endowment Foundation report high impact for low-costs when researching the efficacy of metacognition. These sorts of strategic thinking skills can be used in traditional teacher-directed classroom settings as well as inquiry-based learning environments. The framework can be thought of as an 'educational sat-nav', the process of learni...
We have been focused on the strategic planning process of learning. We are encouraging schools to use the framework for designing individual lessons right up to unit planning. Educators don't generally have tools that they can use to develop a unit of study. It often becomes a mishmash of resources found on the hard drive. This process of zooming i...
Feb 28, 2019 · The 21st-century skillset is generally understood to encompass a range of competencies, including critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, meta-cognition, communication, digital and technological literacy, civic responsibility, and global awareness (for a review of frameworks, see Dede, 2010).
- Sharon Kim, Mahjabeen Raza, Edward Seidman
- 2019
Jul 1, 2024 · In their report, the OECD reiterated that creative thinking skills can be taught in schools. So, what can this look like in the classroom? In this article, ACER Senior Research Fellow, Dr Claire Scoular, shares 6 considerations for when you’re teaching creative thinking skills.
Jan 2, 2024 · By engaging in these activities, students can enhance their problem-solving skills, logical reasoning, creativity, and ability to think outside the box. Incorporating such puzzles into teaching can be an effective way to promote critical and creative thinking among students.
