Thinking Skills Workshops
Think! Damn It!: Cognitive and Cooperative Strategies for Scaffolding Thinking P-7 (Full Day)
Content Overview
Think! Damn It! is a hands-on, challenging and engaging workshop in which P – 7 teachers will learn how to create ‘a thoughtful future’ for their students [and themselves] by:
Creating a Climate for Thinking – Teaching for Thinking
- Thinking About Brain Facts – an introduction to the brain and how it learns ‘best’
- Promoting Thinking in the Primary Classroom – questions that need to be asked
- Exploring the Thinking Classroom – planning brain compatible learning environments for years P – 7.
Using and Understanding Explicit Strategies – Teaching of Thinking
- Strategies that enhance recall – using cognitive strategies in a cooperative way in the primary classroom
- Scaffolding Higher-Order Thinking – Analysis, Decision Making, Creativity
- Strategies that can serve as assessment tools at the primary level
Encouraging Co-operative Interactions – Teaching with Thinking
- Making explicit the what, how, why and when of Cooperative strategies that work: See-Saw Pairs, Human Bingo, Round Robin, Hot Potato, Silent Card Shuffle
- Apprenticing primary students as cooperative learners
Stimulating Metacognitive Processing – Teaching about Thinking
- Implications for teaching of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences – the ‘ways of knowing’
- Revisiting Bloom’s Taxonomy - Understanding the thinking and learning process
- The teacher’s role in modeling thinking in the primary classroom
The Instructional Approaches
The facilitator will ‘walk the talk’ by:
- focusing on the connections between the teaching and the learning in each modelled example
- engaging teachers in a hands-on and very practical exploration of strategies that will stimulate their students to think more deeply and bring a greater depth of understanding and problem solving ability to their studies and their lives.
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P-7 Think! Damn it! (Full Day Workshop)
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