1. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Leading in Learning Whole-school launch

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3. 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 3.1

4. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 National Curriculum thinking skills Information processing Reasoning Enquiry Creative thinking Evaluation Slide 3.2

5. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 The Leading in Learning approach Five NC thinking skills 3-lesson cycle10 teaching strategies Slide 3.3

6. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 The strategies 1. Advance organisers 2. Analogies 3. Audience and purpose 4. Classifying 5. Collective memory Slide 3.4 6. Living graphs 7. Mysteries 8. Reading images 9. Relational diagrams 10. Summarising

7. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Leading in Learning Slide 3.5 1Advance organisers 2Analogies 3Audience and purpose 4Classifying 5Collective memory 6Living graphs and fortune lines 7Mysteries 8Reading images 9Relational diagrams 10Summarising National Curriculum Thinking SkillsThe Strategies PlanningReviewPlanningReviewPlanningReview 1 st Lesson2 nd Lesson3 rd Lesson Observation, video, meeting, interviewing pupils, reading learning logs The 3-Lesson Model

8. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Quotations from the National Curriculum Pupils can be encouraged to reflect on what and how they learn, and how these skills can be applied to different subjects, different problems and real-life situations. ‘By using thinking skills pupils focus on “knowing how” as well as “knowing what” – learning how to learn.’ ‘Promoting skills across the National Curriculum’, in The National Curriculum: Handbook for secondary teachers in England (1999) Slide 3.6

9. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Thinking skills and your subject What opportunities are there in your subject to develop the thinking skill you have chosen to consider? Does developing pupils’ skills in this aspect of thinking help to raise their attainment in the subject? Slide 3.7

10. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Thinking about moving house! Illustrate each of the 9 bullet points on the handout by a specific example using the context of a house move. Choose any event, from the initial decision to move, to the final act of moving into the new house. You have 5 minutes for this task. Slide 3.8

11. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 The strategies Following a brief description, each strategy has nine sections: 1. Rationale 2. NC thinking skills addressed 3. Planning to use the strategy 4. An example from a 3-lesson cycle 5. Creating the right level of challenge 6. Identifying successful thinking 7. Troubleshooting 8. Metacognitive plenaries 9. Bridging scenarios Slide 3.9

12. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Summarising 1. Delete unwanted extra detail 2. Delete information which is repeated 3. Replace detail with more general terms or descriptions 4. Select a topic sentence or create one if it is missing 5. Check that there is sufficient detail to make sense Slide 3.10

13. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Summarising Plenary questions Type of question Generic teacher question Exemplar pupil responses Reflective ‘How did you decide what ‘We left out stuff about films like – specific information to leave out?’ “Jaws” and decided to keep to descriptions and facts like how long sharks are and how heavy.’ Challenge ‘Why do you think it is ‘You need to think about the important to consider the audience and purpose of the purpose of the summarising?’ piece. It is different writing for ‘What difference does it make other people because you don’t if the‘summary is for you or know what they know to start with for someone else?’ and you do for yourself.’ Slide 3.11

14. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 The 3–lesson cycle – our experience Thinking skill focus: Strategies used: Classes involved: Slide 3.12

15. Key Stage 3 National Strategy © Crown copyright 2005 Professional growth ‘Probably nothing within school has more impact on students in terms of skills development, self- confidence or classroom behaviour than the personal and professional growth of their teachers.’ R. Barth, Improving schools from within: teachers, parents and principals can make a difference! (Jossey-Bass,1990) Slide 3.13