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Agenda
1. Name the network2. Literacy Frame3. Bliink2 Draft Smart Goal4. Curriculum Embedded Critical
Thinking Deconstructing the curriculum – Gallery Walk Break Learning Goals and Success Criteria Critical Challenge Reflection
Bliink2 Draft Smart Goal
Draft Smart Goal:
Through effective, engaging instruction across the multi-literacies each student will demonstrate an improvement in their ability to think critically by June 2012
Learning Goals
We are learning to deconstruct and understand
the curriculum through the lens of critical thinking by means of the multiliteracies.
We are learning to build a community of thinkers
Deconstructing the Curriculum
1.8 – Grade 4 – Language CurriculumResponding to and Evaluating Texts
- express opinions about ideas and information in texts and cite evidence from the text to support their opinions
Your Turn!
Deconstruct the curriculum expectation 1.8 for your grade.
Highlight nouns, verbs and adjectives.
What does this mean in our literacy program?
Gallery walk
Post your deconstructed expectation
Walk and Talk
What do you notice across the grades?
Learning Goal
1.8 – Grade 4 – Learning Goal
We are learning to respond to text by expressing opinions and making reasonable judgements using evidence.
Learning Goal - Our Process Used the title of the curriculum
expectation: Responding to and Evaluating Text
Used student-friendly language
Focussed on an overarching learning goal
Embedded key messages from curriculum expectation
Success Criteria
I can express my opinion using ideas and information from different kinds of texts
I use ideas and information from different kinds of texts to make judgements
I can show that my judgements are reasonable by using evidence from the text
Success Criteria – Our process Student-friendly language Qualititative vs. quantitative: use of the
achievement chart
1)variety of text2)Evaluating (making judgements)3)Expressing opinion4)Support information making connections to ideas and
information in the text
Read and Reflect
Read through Making Thinking Visible
p.58 What is Visible Thinking? and; p. 59 Thinking Routines: Tools for
Making Thinking Visible
Critical Challenge
Think about the language curriculum expectation 1.8
What are the links to critical thinking?
How we Developed the Question
•Referred to document Asking Effective Questions, LNS
•Made links to Learning Goal
•Anticipated student responses and thinking (media literacy, inferring, purpose and audience, environment)
•Focused on an open-ended question
•Thought through Gini-Newman’s type 3 questions
Guiding Questions
Form an opinion and make a judgement about this clip. As you are watching keep in mind the following questions:
What is the purpose of this clip?
Who is the audience?
What is the message?
The Question and our Criteria
Does this video have a significant impact on your thinking around the environment?
Global warming
Recycling
Urban development
Reflecting on our Criteria
Does this video have a significant impact on your thinking around the environment?
Global Warming
Urban development
Recycling
Additive Teaching
This video is a commercial!
Now does this video have a significant impact on your thinking around the environment?
Urban development
RecyclingGlobal warming
Additive Teaching
This video is a commercial!
Now does this video have a significant impact on your thinking around the environment?
Urban development
RecyclingGlobal warming
Activate your Schema…
•Commercial for what product?•Has your thinking changed?
Reflecting on our Criteria
Now, does this video have a significant impact on your thinking around the environment?
Urban development
Urban development
Recycling
Summary of Critical Thinking
Deconstruct and understand the curriculum through the lens of critical thinking by means of the multiliteracies.