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Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 National curriculum thinking skills Information processing Reasoning Enquiry Creative thinking Evaluation Slide 2.1

Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Collaborative working ‘The time teachers spend with each other and with other knowledgeable educators – engaged in thinking about teaching and learning – is just as important to students’ opportunities to learn as the time teachers spend in direct facilitation of the learning process.’ Linda Darling-Hammond, from Target Time Towards Teachers (Journal of Staff Development, Spring 1999) Slide 2.2

Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 An analogy ‘The human brain is an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one…’ Charles Sherrington, from The Mind Map Book by Buzan, B. and Buzan, T. (E.P. Dutton, 1994) Slide 2.3

Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Key aim of Leading in Learning To encourage teachers to develop and share their practice through collaboration in planning and teaching of thinking skills and the development of a shared language about thinking and learning. Slide 2.4

Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Key aspects of collaboration Planning lessons collaboratively Watching others teach Reviewing the lesson together Being coached by a consultant or more experienced colleague Having access to theoretical ideas which can help you understand and develop your practice Slide 2.5

Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Enabling conditions Effective collaboration is enabled by: authentic relationships positive interdependence individual accountability interaction and dialogue between Leading thinkers individual and joint planning, observation, teaching and reflection Slide 2.6

Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Change ‘Real change represents a serious personal and collective experience characterised by ambivalence and uncertainty for the individual involved.’ Michael Fullan, Successful School Improvement (Open University, 1992) ‘Conditions need to be created within the school to ensure that individuals are supported through these inevitable but difficult and challenging times.’ David Hopkins, School Improvement for Real (Routledge, 2001) Slide 2.7