Striving for Higher Richard Coe Darren Anderson
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Striving for Higher Richard Coe Darren Anderson
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Striving for Higher Richard Coe Darren Anderson. “We are in danger of losing great teachers from our profession if we don’t encourage teachers to help students think – creatively and critically .” Malorie Blackman - new Children’s Laureate. Y map. LOOK. FEEL. SOUND. Oliver Wendell – Holmes - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Striving for Higher
Richard CoeDarren Anderson
“We are in danger of losing great teachers from our profession if we don’t encourage teachers to help students think – creatively and critically .”Malorie Blackman - new Children’s Laureate
Y map
LOOK
SOUND FEEL
Oliver Wendell – Holmes3-Storey Intellect
There are one storey intellects, two storey intellects, and three storey intellects with skylights……
Oliver Wendell – Holmes3-Storey Intellect
All fact collectors (gatherers) who have no aims beyond their facts are one storey people……
Oliver Wendell – Holmes3-Storey Intellect
Two storey people compare, reason, generalise, using the labour of fact collectors as their own…….
Oliver Wendell – Holmes3-Storey Intellect
Three storey people idealise, imagine, predict – their best illumination comes from above the skylight
Evaluation
Questioning for higher
One’s first step to wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Research shows overwhelmingly that:
Teachers use memory questions in over 70% of their teaching time; (Gove WILL be pleased)Teachers overemphasise fact questions in tests and exams;Questions in textbooks are predominantly memory or fact questions.
Karron G Lewis ~ Centre for Teaching Effectiveness,
Q MatrixIs Did Can Would Will Might
What
Where /When
Which
Who
Why
How
“If we expect pupils to engage in more creative and stimulating
thought processes, we, as teachers must encourage them
by asking higher level questions.”
Karron G Lewis ~ Centre for Teaching Effectiveness,
8 way Thinking (Ian Gilbert) and the Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)
Logical/Mathematical Verbal/Linguistic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalistic Body/Physical Musical Visual/Spatial
8 way thinking simplified
Numbers Words People
Feelings Nature Actions Sounds Sights
Ian Gilbert model for looking at Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Model.
There are also some parallels with De Bono hats
If developed you could also link to Wendall-Holmes 3 Storey Intellect and Q Matrix
•How much beer is drunk in the UK each Friday night? •Where does the word 'beer' come from? •Who invented beer and why? •What sort of emotions do advertisers try and associate with beer in their marketing? •What are the natural ingredients of beer and where are they grown? •What are the various stages in the beer-making process? •What songs have been written about beer and its effects? •In TV and magazine advertising, how is beer portrayed?
INTRODUCE 8 WAY THINKING
Evaluation
Reasons Potential Outcomes
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things a different way”
Edward De Bono
Design a Restaurant
1. Decide on the number and nature of the parameters.Ask “Would this challenge exist without the parameter I am considering? “2. Design a box with parameters3. Explore combinations4. Decide on preferred possibilities5. Make recommendations
“We are in danger of losing great teachers from our profession if we don’t encourage teachers to help students think – creatively and critically .”Malorie Blackman - new Children’s Laureate
