Liz

Choose one set of vignettes on pages 1.02 -1.04 and think about the differences between the two classrooms. Write your responses to the following questions. 1. Which vignette did you choose? Year 7 nutrition 2. What type of thinking skills did students demonstrate in each classroom? Mrs Gardner: identifying key foods, interesting and using information; self evaluation Mr Horton: Critical analysis; finding resources for evaluation; application of new knowledge in a purposeful manner; 3. Which teacher's classroom was more likely to foster, support and encourage students' higher order thinking skills? Mr Horton Consider classes that you have taught or witnessed where there was evidence of higher order thinking occurring. Use these questions as prompts to create a list of strategies that you use or have seen that foster higher order thinking in the classroom
 * What approaches fostered a safe environment in the classroom
 * What types of learning tasks were undertaken?
 * What did teachers do?
 * What did students do?
 * Day 1 Reflectio n

Thinking skills are what we intrinsically use when developing units of work. Today reminded us of those we have used in the past, and introduced us to some we have not used before. The objectives of what we wanted to acheive are always there, but it was good to bring then to the forfrount of our curriculum planning.

Challenges included identifying standards/syllabus outcomes and organising a unit plan in a different format.

Question???? There are many... How is this new format going to enhance my unit development? (I can already see the big idea emerging more clearly). ** **Many Thanks!**