Lynne Hinton The Thoughtful School or. The discussion Procedural skillsIntellectual processExploring concepts Seeking understanding and meaning Inquiry

Lynne Hinton

The Thoughtful SchoolThe Thoughtful School

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The discussion

Procedural skills Intellectual process

Exploring concepts

Seeking understanding and meaning

• Inquiry skills

listening

giving reasons

seeking alternatives

questioning

building on the ideas of

others

examples & counterexamples

making distinctions

seeking & giving clarification

summarising

paraphrasing

metaphor & analogy

uncovering assumptions

identifying faulty reasoning

hypothesising

inferring

reflecting

Prep listeningquestions/statementsreasonshypothetical reasoningreflecting (reporting)

Year Onegiving examplesbuilding on ideas of others open/closed questionslisting criteriaexploring disagreementsummarizingReflection (responding)Year Twogrouping questionsquestion quadrantseeking and giving clarificationmaking connectionssimilarities and differencesquality of reasonsreflecting (relating)

Year Threedifferent points of viewdefinitionscounter-examplesdrawing conclusionsreflecting (relating)

Year Fouralternative possibilitiesdistinctionsanalogiesinferencesassumptionsreflecting (reasoning)

Year Fiveidentifying faulty reasoningtesting analogiestesting counterexamplesrelevancereflection (reasoning)Year Six and Sevenevaluating progress of discussion formal deductive reasoninggeneralisationshypothesesplausibility of evidenceInferencestesting hypothetical claimsreasoning diagramsreflection (reconstruction)It is expected that these skills will be explicitly and comprehensively taught at the year level indicated. They would then be revisited each successive year.t

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Yr 1/2

I prefer … …box because you can sit on it. …box because you can put apples in it. …box because it can be a foot rest or a bus for toys. …basket because it is bigger and

it can fit more stuff. …basket because it has a handle.


Year Onegiving examplesbuilding on ideas of others open/closed questionslisting criteriaexploring disagreementsummarizingreflecting (responding)

Year Twogrouping questionsquestion quadrantseeking and giving clarificationmaking connectionssimilarities and differencesquality of reasonsreflecting (relating)



Year Fiveidentifying faulty reasoningtesting analogiestesting counterexamplesrelevancereflecting (reasoning)Year Six and Sevenevaluating progress of discussion formal deductive reasoninggeneralizationshypothesesplausibility of evidenceInferencestesting hypothetical claimsreasoning diagramsreflecting (reconstruction)It is expected that these skills will be explicitly and comprehensively taught at the year level indicated. They would then be revisited each successive year.

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Buranda State School

Inquiry skills… making Inquiry skills… making distinctionsdistinctions

In which ways are the following pairs the same and in which ways are they different?

• an apple and a pear

• a fort and a prison

• a caterpillar and a butterfly

• watermelon and salami

• sunrise and sunset

• me now and me in 10 years

• a reason and an excuse

• imagination and thoughts

• imagination and knowing

• imagination and believing

Inquiry skills… making Inquiry skills… making distinctionsdistinctions

Wisdom is distinct from knowledge because…

knowledge is gained from learning and wisdom is gained

through experiences

knowledge is knowing something but wisdom is how to use

that knowledge correctly

knowledge is the core and wisdom is the dispenser

wisdom comes with age but you always have knowledge

not everyone has wisdom but everyone has knowledge

you can’t have wisdom and no knowledge but you can have

knowledge but no wisdom.

Inquiry skills… making Inquiry skills… making distinctions distinctions

Yr 6/7Yr 6/7







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Hypothetical reasoningPrep class

If…

then…

… I had four legs instead of two

… I would have to walk like a caterpillar (Gabriel)… I could climb better (Noah )…I would look like an elephant (Grace)

… I had ears as big as doors… I had feet as big as an ox

… I would stomp my feet and make the ground shiver (Grace)

Drawing conclusions Yr 3/4

Does this follow?

All dogs like to chew

Arthur is a dog

So…Arthur likes to chew

No friendly animals bite

Some big dogs are friendly

So some big dogs do not bite

No dogs can fly like birds

Arthur is a dog

So…Arthur cannot fly like a bird

Good reasoningGood reasoning

Yr 5/6

To test…

Good reasoningGood reasoning

If you eat all the time, then you’ll become overweight.

… search for counterexamples …

My sister, who’s an elite swimmer, eats all the time and she’s not overweight!

Your mind is like a crab because they both move quickly.

Year 2/3

Developing analogies

Your mind is like a computer because…

…they both have words in them.

…they both tell you information.

…they both have energy.

Loneliness is like a cloud because…

…they both hide the sun.

…they are both away from the world.

…they both make you feel a long way away.

…they can both be dark and frightening.

Year 4

The truth is like the air you can’t always see it but it is always there (Isabelle)

A lie is like a bottomless sea you have to keep lying and lying until it crushes you and you tell the truth

(Rosie)







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Reporting - saying what happened

Responding - saying something about what happened

Relating - saying how this relates to your experience

Reasoning - developing a reasoning process to show learning about a topic

Reconstructing - showing how that reasoning process has helped you to change your mind, uncover an assumption or self-correct a misconception so you can reconstruct the way you perceive a topic, issue, situation or yourself

Australian Curriculum Studies Association 2007

Activities to develop inquiry skills: see index pp 101,102

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Lynne Hinton The Thoughtful School or. The discussion Procedural skillsIntellectual processExploring concepts Seeking understanding and meaning Inquiry