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Title: He who learns but does not think is lost'


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  • He who learns but does not think is lost.
  • (Chinese Proverb)

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Quality Thinking at Kurwongbah
  • Kurwongbahs
  • Whole School Thinking Skills Program
  • Leading the Way

2005 Showcase Awards for Excellence in Schools
Submission
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The Program in Summary
  • Thinking skills and strategies for students
  • Acknowledging and building on teachers prior
    expertise in Thinking Skills
  • Professional Development and support for
    Kurwongbah teachers
  • Resources for the classroom
  • Thinking Skills WebPage- a resource for educators
    around the world!
  • Working with other schools and educators across
    Murrumba and Australia to provide quality
    Professional Development

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In the future our students will need to be able
to
Our Whole School Thinking Skills Program is about
equipping students for the future!
  • Solve problems
  • Think creatively
  • Think critically
  • Make decisions
  • Generate new ideas
  • Analyse and evaluate information
  • Plan for the future

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Mission Statement
  • The Whole School Thinking Skills Program at
    Kurwongbah is about equipping our students with
    the essential creative, critical and higher-order
    thinking skills and strategies for life long
    learning.

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Program Overview
  • Our Thinking Skills Program is concerned
    primarily with
  • the teaching of thinking
  • teaching with thinking
  • teaching for thinking
  • teaching about thinking

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Project Aim
  • Our Whole School Thinking Skills Program aims to
    create a shared vision and common language about
    thinking in our school.

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In our classrooms
  • There are significant opportunities for
    higher-level thinking, complex problem solving
    and/or open-ended response.
  • Thinking skills are explicitly taught in an
    authentic and meaningful context.

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Staff Professional Development
  • Intensive professional development
  • Hands-on workshops
  • Supported by resources and the development of our
    Thinking Skills Folder
  • Presented by school and outside educators
  • Training in
  • Thinkers Keys
  • Six Hats
  • Blooms Taxonomy
  • Multiple Intelligences
  • Higher-order Thinking
  • Curriculum Differentiation
  • Dimensions of Learning

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Thinking Skills WebPage
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Thinking Skills WebPage
  • http//www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/thinking
    .htm
  • Teachers, students, school and wider community
    members are able to access a wealth of
    information and resources including
  • de Bonos Six Thinking Hats, Gardners Multiple
    Intelligences, Tony Ryans Thinkers Keys,
    Blooms Revised Taxonomy, Graphic Organisers,
    Models of Curriculum Differentiation, Dimensions
    of Learning
  • Posters, brochures, assessment tools, Black Line
    Masters
  • Student contract activities
  • Copies of PD session materials (power point
    presentations, handouts etc)
  • GATE Policy and extensive support documents
  • Links to other information available on the
    Internet

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Whos Surfin our WebPage?
  • Our Thinking Skills WebPage is being accessed and
    used by
  • Kurwongbah teachers and parents
  • Teachers across the Murrumba District
  • Teachers across Australia
  • Educators around the world- including New Zealand
    and Canada.

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Delivering Professional Development
  • Our teachers have delivered workshops about our
    Program at
  • Annual Kurwongbah Quality Teaching Conferences
  • Annual Murrumba District Conferences
  • Schools and Networks within the Murrumba District
  • State Conferences
  • National Conferences

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  • Think left and think right and think low and
    think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if
    only you try!
  • (Dr Seuss)

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Why has the Program been so successful?
  • Strong Admin support
  • Enthusiasm of leaders within the program
  • Practical PD Sessions
  • Slow and steady introduction
  • An expectation that teachers will integrate the
    strategies within their planning
  • Enthusiasm of the teachers
  • Enthusiasm of the students
  • Resource support- human, digital and print
  • Planning support and resource development
  • Not an extra! Relevant to current curriculum
    initiatives including Productive Pedagogies,
    authentic assessment and The Attributes of the
    life long learner

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Impact on the Classroom
  • The classroom seems more active and vibrant when
    children are involved in many of these activities
  • More varied and interesting activities
  • Students are presenting work with greater thought
    and creativity evident
  • Students are more motivated to complete tasks
  • Using Multiple Intelligences has enhanced our
    classroom because it forces us to cater for
    different learning styles and interests
  • Kids have a keen attitude and more imaginative
    thoughts
  • Opened out activities and made the classroom more
    student based
  • Students are happy to work in any given group-
    the focus is on
  • the task and not the group dynamics
  • More cooperation between some students

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Impact on students
  • Students are more able to respond to questioning
    at a higher level
  • The depth of their thinking is becoming more
    obvious the more the program is used
  • It makes learning more accessible to a variety of
    children via catering for learning styles and
    providing a variety of strategies and skills
  • Individual needs/ interests being catered for
  • Productive work, on-task
  • Everyone gets an opportunity to identify their
    strengths, become special or good at something
  • Enjoyable and rewarding experience

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  • A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that
    spread out in all directions.
  • (Dorothy Day)
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