1. Copyright ACTS II Sustainable Thinking Classrooms Modelling an Infusion lesson ‘Mr Arable and the Pig’ Learning Intentions Topic Kind of Thinking Character in storyDecision-making Moral Values

2. Copyright ACTS II Sustainable Thinking Classrooms What resources am I going to use? A ‘thinking’ exercise- decision-making by a fictional character in a children’s story Questions to prompt a certain kind of thinking A thinking diagram to record our thinking and to keep us on track Students working in groups – collaborative learning Questions to prompt evaluation and reflection on the thinking and learning

3. Copyright ACTS II Sustainable Thinking Classrooms Questions to guide good quality decision making… Why I am making this decision? What are my options/choices? Can I predict the consequences of the different options/choices? What will happen if……….? What are the pros and cons? How can I weigh them up? Which is the best option (choice)?

4. Copyright ACTS II Sustainable Thinking Classrooms From Swartz and Parks (1994) Thinking Diagram:Choosing

5. Copyright ACTS II Sustainable Thinking Classrooms Questions at the end of the lesson to prompt reflection What questions did we have to ask in order to make the best choice (decision)? Is this a good method to use? What did it make you think about? If you were to use it another time, how could you improve it? What did you learn about the characters in the story – Mr Arable ? What kind of a story is it? What did you learn about working together as a group? Where else could you apply this kind of thinking?

6. What we were good at ? What we could be better at ? What was I good at?What could I be better at?

7. Ladder of Metacognition (Swartz et al, 2007)_ Becoming aware of a type of thinking Describing a type of thinking Planning for the next time Evaluating whether thinking was effective