USING THINKING SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM

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USING THINKING SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM

• TAMMY NICHOLLS

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MY BACKGROUND

• Underachievement
• Demotivated individuals
• Disaffection
• Accessibility
• Creating interest
• Access to literature for all ability levels
• Providing challenge

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Thinking Skills Strategies

• Memory maps
• Mysteries
• Decision making activities
• Odd-one-out
• Brain tanks
• De Bonos Thinking Hats
• Games and TV shows

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MEMORYMAPS
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DEAD
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ASLEEP WHEN SHOULD BE WORKING
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The following statements were collected at the
scene

• LM What, in our house?
• MD Shake off this downy sleep, death's
  counterfeit, and look on death itself! up, up,
  and see the great doom's image! .As from your
  graves rise up, and walk like sprites,to
  countenance this horror!
• L Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done
  't their hands and faces were an badged with
  blood
• MB The spring, the head, the fountain of your
  bloodIs stopp'd the very source of it is
  stopp'd.
• MD the king's two sons, are stol'n away and
  fled which puts upon them suspicion of the deed.

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USING POPULAR CULTURE TO ENGAGE - MAGAZINES
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1. Someone tells you they can give you advice
that they assure you will get you a better
career. What do you do?A) take their advice
immediately you really want to do well in
lifeB) ignore it completely you dont need to
take advice, you know your own mindC) ignore it
for now but if something happens to remind you of
that advice you might follow it then.
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2. Someone gave you some prophecies that you
didnt believe. However, recently something they
said came true, what do you do?A) think it is
just a coincidence and forget about itB) change
your mind and totally believe the other things
theyve told youC) still not believe all of it,
but be careful of the other things theyve told
you in case they look like theyll come true
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3. You and your best friend go to a psychic who
predicts your future. You dont believe what
youve been told but your friends really keen
and keeps reminding you of it. Do youA) still
ignore the psychic and trust your own
judgementB) try to ignore it but trust it more
as your friend reminds you of itC) completely
trust it and enjoy your friend reminding you of
the parts youve forgotten
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4. You think you see a ghost which tries to tell
you something. Do youA) tell yourself you must
have been imagining it and put it out of your
mindB) try to convince yourself you must have
been imagining it but be scared about going near
the place you saw it againC) tell a close friend
youre really scared because you know it was
true
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5. Your horoscope tells you that you will have
to do something horrible to get where you want to
be. Do youA) do the horrible thing you want
to get on in lifeB) become horrified you would
never doing anything horrible to get what you
wantC) consider it and if the time comes that
you have to do something horrible to get your way
you might do it
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6. A psychic has told you some things that have
come true but now she tells you youve got to do
something illegal to make the next prophecy come
true. Do youA) do the illegal thing theyve
been proved right once, theyll be right
againB) dont do it you know that nothing is
worth breaking the law forC) try a way around it
you might be ale to do something slightly
illegal to get the same results
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7. Someone has made some prophecies but when you
go back to ask them for more information they say
they got the information off someone else. How
do you feel?A) cheated you believed this
person totally and now youre not too
sureB) relieved these people cant be right
about the other things they saidC) furious you
want to know more information and you want them
now
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8. A disaster has happened because youve tried
to follow a prophecy. What do you do
now?A) carry on anyway you need the rest of
them to come trueB) discard anything youve been
told its not worth following if its going to
hurt the people you knowC) be disappointed but
look for a way to make the other prophecies work
they told you good things would happen
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9. Youre heading down the wrong path but
someone tells you you cant go wrong. Do
youA) believe their advice and carry onB) stop
now you know when things are going too
farC) try to stop but you know youre not able
to ignore the advice
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10. Everything has gone wrong and youve got no
hope left. Do youA) give in quietly and go
homeB) fight to the end knowing this shouldnt
have happened to youC) still believe that things
could be OK and give it one more chance
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MAGAZINE QUIZ

• Heres your answers
• 1. a 3 b 1 c - 2
• 2. a 1 b 3 c 2
• 3. a 1 b 2 c - 3
• 4. a 1 b 2 c 3
• 5. a 3 b 1 c - 2
• 6. a 3 b 1 c 2
• 7. a 2 b 1 c - 3
• 8. a 3 b 1 c 2
• 9. a 3 b 1 c - 2
• 10. a 1 b 2 c 3
• over 25 you believe anything youre told
  youre too gullible, just like Macbeth
• 15- 25 you try to follow your own mind but at
  times you can be influenced a bit like Banquo
• 0-15 youre completely detached you dont
  follow superstition and follow your instincts for
  what is right just like Macduff.

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ODD-ONE-OUT
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Old man
Father Christmas
Related to Christianity?
Give gifts
Tooth fairy
Easter Bunny
Dont happen at Christmas
Leaves money in place of tooth
animal
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DE BONOS THINKING HATS
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De Bonos Thinking Hats

• Red feelings
• Blue overview
• Green generate ideas
• Yellow advantages
• Black caution
• White - facts

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USING POPULAR CULTURE TO ENGAGE - TV
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WHY USE POPULAR GAMES TO TEACH IDEAS?

• Puts pupils as experts when explaining how to
  play games
• Uses familiar context to study unfamiliar ideas
• Its fun and therefore pupils dont think they
  are working
• Encourages deeper thinking through talk
• Different games allow open and closed questions
  and enables creative thinking in grey areas
  pupils often struggle with
• Great starter or plenary to check learning
• Encourages pupils to identify with texts on many
  levels

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WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE THE QUOTATIONS
VERSION!
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DEAL OR NO DEAL

• 22 amounts of money
• A deal is offered by the banker after the first
  five boxes and then every three boxes thereafter.
  
• Contestants have to try to sell their box for the
  highest amount or take whats in their own box
  and hope its a high amount.

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NARRATIVE

• What incidents in Much Ado About Nothing would be
  represented by the following amounts?
• 250,000
• 50,000
• 1p
• 500

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The whole play

• Split play into 22 parts
• Pupils used Hero as the player
• They put boxes next to parts
• They gave offers from the banker
• They wrote the whole thing into a play Much
  A-deal About Nothing

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Card games

• Snap / matching
• dominoes

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Other factors

• Social factors
• Gender
• Grouping
• Setting
• High aspirations
• Use of formative assessment

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USING THINKING SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM

• TAMMY NICHOLLS