What does THINKING look like

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What doesTHINKINGlook like?
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Thinking Skills andVCAL Students

• Cam Woolcock

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How do you know what your student is thinking?
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Goal

• To spark an interest in Thinking Skills

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Outline

• Why dispositional thinking may work for VCAL
  students
• How it is used in the context of the Hospitality
  subject at The Island
• How it may be used in your classroom

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Intro to thinking

• Three requests
• Apprentice cooks share similarities VCAL students
• Im not an expert
• Thinking skills are part of a bigger picture at
  The Island

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Why dispositional thinking may work for VCAL
students

• Approaches
• Skill of thinking
• Efficiency, IQ, Quick decisions
• Understanding approach
• Understanding approach skill of thinking
  approach dispositions approach
• Dispositional approach
• Motivation

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Dispositional commonalities

• Creative thinking
• Open-minded
• Curious
• Reflective thinking
• Meta-cognitive
• Critical thinking
• Seeking truth and understanding
• Strategic
• Skeptical

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Comparison of thethree approaches

• Subject knowledge
• Neutral
• Meta-cognition
• Can be achieved if you are motivated to
• Thinking and intelligence
• Not limited by intelligence or IQ
• Can be achieved if you are motivated to think

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Dispositional thinking in context of Hospitality
at The Island

• Safe
• Class discussions
• Chocolate
• OK to pass
• Time
• To reflect
• To think of answers to questions
• To make mistakes

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Mapping Dispositional Commonalities to student
learning

• Creative thinking
• Open-minded
• Curious
• Reflective thinking
• Meta-cognitive
• Critical thinking
• Seeking truth and understanding
• Strategic
• Skeptical

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What does thinking look like?
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Dispositional thinkingand your classrooms

• What does thinking look like?
• How do you know what your students are thinking?
• You ask them what are you thinking?

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Dispositional thinkingand your classrooms

• Maps to
• LITERACY SKILLS ORAL COMMUNICATION
• 1 Oracy for Knowledge
• 2 Oracy for Practical Purposes
• 3 Oracy for Exploring Issues and Problem Solving

• Learning to learn
• Risk taking (having a go)
• Learning from mistakes
• Reviewing and reflecting
• Asking for and accepting help/advice/feedback
• Linking new information to existing knowledge
• Giving voice to experiences and responding to
  the diverse experiences of others
• Developing skills for independent learning such
  as classifying, ordering and
• summarising information clearly

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Dispositional thinkingand your classrooms

• Maps to

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Dispositional thinkingand your classrooms

• Maps to

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Dispositional thinkingand your classrooms

• Maps to
• VELS
• Thinking
• Civics and citizenship
• Others?

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Dispositional thinkingand your classrooms

• Maps to
• INDUSTRY SPECIFIC STRAND
• May be mapped onto specific VET modules, such as
  Hospitalitys
• Work with colleagues and customers
• Communicate in the workplace

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Contacts

• Cam Woolcock
• Hospitality Instructor
• The Island
• Woolcock.cameron.h_at_
• edumail.vic.gov.au