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Stretch and Challenge7 strategies to grow students who can think for themselves from tomorrow morning
Strategy 1: Demystify higher order thinking• How many students can
work out how to use a new mobile phone without a teacher?
• How many students can evaluate a football match or episode of ‘X Factor’ without a teacher?
• Students use Bloom’s every time they choose a sandwich! Tap into their pre-existing skills
Bloom’s Higher Order Skills
4 Analysis Compare & contrast the performance of Liverpool & Man
United this season
5 Synthesis Generalise about the standard of England’s performance in Euro
2012
6 Evaluation
Evaluate Alex Ferguson’s
contribution to football
Idea: Link Bloom’s to students’ existing thinking skills in fashion,
football etc. Show them they think all the time
Strategy 2: Encourage students to have ideasIdeas Flow
In groups students need to generate as many ideas as possible no matter how improbable – it’s what leading Research and Development Teams do
DialecticStudents come up with an idea: the thesis. Students come up with an opposite idea: the antithesis. Now they need to try to put the 2 together to get a better overall idea: dialectic
Ideas MappingWhat does the idea look like? Can students map it out? Does it have sides or a shape, or different layers?
Strategy 3: Use De Bono to develop team discussion
Colour Team Role
White What information is available. Keeps to facts
Red Instinctive gut reactions
Yellow Positives and benefits
Black Cautious and conservative
Green Creative and investigative
Each member of the team is given a role. In the discussion that follows they must only contribute in that role. In future discussions, team members can swap roles. Every role must be filled to ensure that the discussion is addressed from every angle.
Strategy 4: Show students how to think in patterns Line Up Game: • Students are given a category
e.g. book, animal, person, landform, invention
• Each student has to select an example of this category
• The students then have to line up in an order e.g. most important/ significant/ dangerous
• The students have to justify their choice
Post It Game: • Individually, Students have to
write single words on post its to describe something e.g. a city, an author, an event. They need to have as many ideas as possible
• They can then share their post-its with their team, removing any replicated post-its
• The team have to decide on 3 categories under which to organise their post-its, and how to organise them within these categories
• The team have to justify their choiceDon’t rely on ‘diamond’ card sorts.
Let the students arrange the cards in a way that they can justify.
Strategy 5: Enable students to think ‘out of the box’PMI:
Students are given an idea: what if humans could fly, what if we banned cars, what if school was voluntary. They need to come up with as many pluses, minuses, and interesting thoughts on this idea as possible. This could be played as two or more teams
Odd One Out: Students are given 3 subjects e.g. Germany, Britain and France, or Red, Blue and Green. They have to find as many odd ones out as possible between 3. Again, this could be played as two or more teams
Strategy 6: Get students to think criticallyDevil’s Advocate
Students have 1 minute to argue one side of a case. They then have to argue the opposite side
Counter-intuitive arguingStudents need to try to argue from the opposite side, or turn an argument on its head. Can they think sideways, or diagonally?
Strategy 7: Help students to think more deeply
Casserole thinkingSet an idea as a homework for students to spend a week, or holiday, thinking about, reflecting on and pondering. The best thoughts and ideas can take time to grow
Ideas OnionLike an onion, an idea has many layers. Encourage students to probe, ask questions, and dig deeper, coming back with new layers to the idea
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