Thinking StrategiesIf you don’t change your mind,

why bother having one? deBono

What is this about?

Professional development and awareness of the opportunities in regard to thinking strategies

To develop a variety of thinking strategies for our students

To involve questioning capability in unison with these thinking components

What is my role?

To keep this kaupapa to the forefront

Disseminate readings

Share links

Populate the ‘Thinking & Questioning’ wikipages with relevant content

Showcase good practice

What do we do? PD?

PM/PDC’s keep discussions and self awareness to the forefront

Wikipages set up as online learning spaces

Classroom practice is shared

Staff meetings highlight possibilities

Intended outcomesContinued knowledge building of Kaiako to infuse in to classroom programmes

Students with a wide range of thinking strategies

A learning community that can draw on many thinking strategies when faced with varying challenges and opportunities in their future

Succession planning

A well resourced repository in the wikipage where the history and background information is given at the start of the page -shared learning instances -resources -links -shared understanding

Blooms wiki

Looking ahead / recommendations

Continue to bring these strategies to the forefront in PDC’s, staff mtgs etc

Add further to those strategies we are familiar with...AIO/PMI, faces, 1 - 4 rating, some graphic organisers, deBono’s hats, HoM’s

T3 & T4 - a thinking strategies focus to be tabled as a classroom observation

Recommendations: Co-construct an Action Plan to highlight those strategies that we can address per whare over a 2-3 year rotation

Update in T4/2011

• Yet to have discussion around a possible ‘Overview’ for the year where particular ‘Thinking Strategies’ are highlighted per whare

• Co-construct this with all staff - primarily in own whare, and then together as a whole staff where all voices are heard and valued