creating a thinking culture creating a thinking culture engaging and challenging our students part 1
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Creating a thinking cultureEngaging and challenging our students
Part 1
Who am I?
Find out what is written on your back in 5 minutes.
Rules: You must ask every person in the room two questions You must not ask any more than five questions from
one person Only answer questions that have a “Yes” or “No”
answer
Objectives
Improve our teaching so that it is relevant and engaging and better develops our students’ intelligence and capacity for creative problem solving.
Outcomes
Learn new ways to promote learning and excite students.
Add to your toolbox of strategies that develop higher level thinking in your students
Hear about new strategies or be reminded of them, so that help you can ensure your learning sessions are versatile and interactive
Review your learning outcomes to ensure they have sufficient focus on employability skills?
Trial innovative and practical techniques that emphasise the fun in learning
Learn how to ensure your lecture techniques can motivate, lead, inspire and prepare your students for lifelong learning.
Analyse problems and difficulties and figure out solutions
Framework for Workshop Participation
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. (William Arthur Ward)
Image Courtesy of Dorothy Adams-Metaxopoulou
Graduate Skills
Australian Government Core Skills for Employment
Communication Teamwork Problem solving Initiative and enterprise Planning and organising Self management Learning Technology
.
Integrated
Teaching and
Learning
Facts and Knowledg
e
Core / Fundamental Skills that are discipline - specific
Attitude, Approach
People Skills
Thinking Capacity
Personal Attributes
A Thinking Culture
Higher Order Thinking
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
Practical work task 3 –
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Practical work task 4
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, American writer and philosopher
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Time to reflect
Discipline-related Knowledge
Core SkillsAttitudePeople SkillsThinking CapacityPersonal AttributesOther (list)
Question of the Day
How do you create a thinking culture?
De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats®
Practice Work Task 6I have offered you a free holiday in Australia for four weeks – all general expenses paid.
.. as long as you agree to do a presentation for my fellow colleagues about tertiary education in Vietnam.
Use the thinking hats to complete:The white hat – information
Use the thinking hats to complete:The white hat – information
The red hat – feelings
The black hat – caution
The yellow hat - benefits.
The green hat - creative
The green hat - creative
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The blue hat – understanding
Given all this information and ways of looking at things – list 5 things you would do or further problems you would solve.
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, American writer and philosopher
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