SCS Thinking 2011 Using Blooms

SCS Thinking 2011 Using BloomsAcknowledgements to Lyn Ross for ideas and resources included in this presentation.

Goals and OutcomesTo develop and implement a school wide Thinking Toolbox throughout this year.Explore strategies and tools to develop creative and critical thinkingTo gain and understanding of Blooms Taxonomy as an effective strategy to be used throughout the schoolTo offer some practical classroom ideas that can be usedT Greer 2011ThinkingThe Key Competencies T, R, U, M, P.We have defined these and what they mean in our school. Refer to our SCS Curriculum document read THINKINGIntellectual curiosity is at the heart of this competency (NZC p12)

How do we promote what we have identified here in a normal day within the classroom?

Time to delve into these ideas more T Greer 2011As Educators we must Understand what thinking is Know about strategies and tools which develop thinking skills Teach these strategies and tools to our students Use them often in teaching and learning

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What do your students need to memorise? DiscussKnowledge is now a processnot a thingKnowing how to do something is more valuable than memorising information

21st Century life is about learning new skills, not new content.

Success depends on learning new skills and applying them.

What do you (and your students) need to learn when most of recorded knowledge is a mouse click away?

T Greer 2011Blooms TaxonomyIn 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group who developed a classification of levels of thinking behaviours important in the processes of learning.

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Blooms is a strategy, not a tool! The strategy provides the framework and is an elaborate and systematic plan of action to achieve a goal. Tools are used alongside and within the strategy.No one level is more important than the other!Blooms Taxonomy PosterI Drive/CURRICULUM/Thinking/Blooms Taxonomy PosterBlooms TaxonomyLevel 1RememberRecognising, RecallingLevel 2Understand Interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explainingLevel 3ApplyExecuting, implementingLevel 4Analyse Differentiating, organising, attributingLevel 5EvaluateChecking, critiquing, reflectingLevel 6CreateGenerating, planning, creating, producingT Greer 2011Using Blooms Taxonomy to learn more about DinosaursT Greer 2011

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Questioning is to thinking as yeast is to bread!Ask 2 open and 2 closed questionsT Greer 2011

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From hereHow will you begin to teach Blooms in your class?How will the learners understand the strategy?SMART goal setting Specific Measureable Action Plan Realistic Timeframe

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