Thinking 

What kind of thinking should we be promoting and designing for in our Units of work?
The following document teases out the kinds of thinking that we can actively design for, teach and monitor:

2 Great Books about thinking, mindsets and challenging learning are:
Challenging Learning by James Nottingham

Encouraging Learning by James Nottingham
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Both books have many insight into thinking and teaching thinking skills.

The following PDF document has some of the thinking skill activities take from Encouraging Learning. I find the odd on out activity to be a good starting point to challenging thinking for both you as a teacher and the students. I have used google images to find photos of three different objects or animals and just discuss which ones are the odd one out and why. The why is the very important part of the thinking for students. Students should be encouraged to find more than one reason or reasons why each of the objects are the odd one out.

THINKING MAPS
At Poowong Consolidated School we have used thinking maps as a tool in many different subject areas to develop our thinking. Below are several links and PDF documents on the 8 different thinking maps and some student examples on how they can be used. We have used them from Prep to 6 and the staff have also used them to develop ideas.



Circle Map Examples PDF Bubble Map Examples PDF Double Bubble Map Examples PDF Tree Map Examples PDF Brace Map Examples PDF Flow Map Examples PDF Multi Flow Map Examples PDF Bridge Map Examples PDF

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