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What are the kinds of deep thinking?

About how pupils are learning

About what pupils are

learningEncourages them to evaluate their

own progress

Assessment for Learning

Encourages them to refuse to take learning at face

value

What are the kinds of deep thinking?

About what pupils are

learning

Encourages them to refuse to take learning at face

value

A perfect circle

A perfect circle

A perfect circle

A stimulus can be anything

Initial reactions

Themes?

Turn these into questions

Best-guesses

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Question rotation

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Lego pieces

Stops the same pupils dominating the

dialogue

Ensures pupils make their point count

Gives them a visual prompt to build on

ideas of others

Scribes

Can be used

throughout a lesson, a discussion or at the

end

The Ask-It basket

The Opinion line

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Works well when it is hard for pupils to come to a decision for one side or the other

Presents the opportunity to lean towards a certain point of view without committing to it

What are the kinds of deep thinking?

About how pupils are learning

Encourages them to evaluate their

own progress

Assessment for Learning

The Concept WallWhat makes an excellent philosophy

student?An ability to build on An ability to build on arguments of othersarguments of others

An ability to question An ability to question everythingeverything

A desire to learn for A desire to learn for learninglearning’s sake’s sake

An appreciation of An appreciation of other thoughtsother thoughts

To spot themes and To spot themes and ideas ideas

To remove personal To remove personal allegiancesallegiances

Someone who can Someone who can argue in an academic argue in an academic

mannermanner

To refrain from To refrain from drifting into irrelevant drifting into irrelevant personal anecdotespersonal anecdotes

Split screen objectives

What will we find out?

To research the Hindu Caste system

To investigate how Gandhi became involved in

the system

What will we do with this?

To assess the viability of such a system in today’s

world

To examine the ethics behind this tradition

To evaluate whether Gandhi’s personal

struggle was worth it

Thought diaries

Unmarked

Allows pupils to recordtheir thoughts/progress in a creative, rough way

The Four Cs

In Philosophy - Co-operativeCriticalCreativeCaring

History: Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation, Comparison?

“You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.”

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“You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes”

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Further readingde A’Echevarria, Anne, and Patience, Ian: Teaching thinking Pocketbook

Hymer, Barry: Gifted and Talented Pocketbook

thinkingeducation.co.uk

saphere.org.uk

p4c.com

Ginnis, Paul: The Teacher’s Toolkit22

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