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The Basics of Cognitivism

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Basics of higher-level thinking

Higher-Level Thinking Basics

HOTs: Higher-Order Thinking Skills Tennis

According to eduscapes, 'Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hyphothesizing, and critquing.'

Curiosity is only aroused only when higher-level questions are being asked, otherwise students will tune-out and switch-off.

Helen's esponse cards used in the 'game' of Higher-Order Questionning; a technique for chunking up or down Bloom's Taxonomy in Q&A session. The teacher holds up one of the three cards according to level of appropriate questionning for the learner ('because', 'therefore' and 'however' in that order).

The learner holds up the card that best matches the type of response; the teacher can easily see these cards. The teacher's job is to challenge the learner to aswer higher level questions based on cues picked up from previous responses and the cards being held up by the learners. If the learner is ready for higher order thinking, then the teacher will sense this and move to a higher-order card. This is a powerful tool for differentiated questioning.

DTLLS Class

Thirsty work for the brain in one of Helen's lessons.

Power teaching

Wk 11 - Helen's dates and times

Please find below the timings for your tutorials and your presentations for the weeks after the Easter break.

April 20th – Individual tutorials.
Please only attend for your allocated time in our usual room. You are very welcome to come to use the library at any time.

2.30 Dave Smith

3.00 Andy Pierce

3.30 Catherine Kelly

4.00 Wendy Blair

4.30 Mark Eyre

5.00 Tony Bonello

5.30 Jason Poole

6.00 Emma Hill-Lonergan

6.30 Charlotte Cook

7.00 Emma Lowery

7.30 Claire Feehily
Mike will also be around on that night from 5.00 onwards if anyone would like to see him.


Presentations – Tuesday 27th April.
Only the people below need to attend:

3.30 Jason Poole

4.00 Mark Eyre

4.30 Emma Hill-Lonergan

5.00 Emma Lowery

5.30 Claire Feehily
Feedback will then be after the presentations


Presentations – Tuesday May 4th.
Only the people below need to attend:

3.30 Tony Bonello

4.00 Wendy Blair

4.30 Catherine Kelly

5.00 Andy Pierce

5.30 Dave Smith

6.00 Charlotte Cook

Feedback will then be after the presentations.

Tuesday 11th May.
My plan is that this will be a self-study session in preparation for hand in on May 14th. You will be able to book tutorials on this evening if you need to – we will leave it to nearer the time. Please don’t make plans for this evening just in case we need to call you in for any reason.

Tuesday 18th May.
Hopefully this will be enrolment into the second year so you will need to attend for a short time. Again, I’ll let you know nearer the time. Maybe Mike will take you all for a drink to celebrate the end of the 1st year – please keep it free!

Mike's session dates

After Easter my sessions will be as follows:

April 20th – I will be available for any problems, as mentioned below

April 27th – I would like to see the people who are coming in for Helen’s presentations for individual tutorials, as we have done this week and last week (please bring any completed work on my module)

May 4th – as previous week, individual tutorials with the other half who are in for Helen

Remember to include one ILT related development point in your ILP and put a copy in the appendices.

Wk 11 - Questioning Techniques

Questioning Techniques 2010

Wk 11 - Questioning: low-order, high-order

Questioning