What do you know about

1. “I have never heard of the X Factor!! What channel is it on?”

2. “I know that Cheryl Cole used to be one of the judges..”

3. The judging panel consists of Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, Tulisa and Louis Walsh”

4. “Cheryl Cole got sacked from the X Factor because she fell out with Simon Cowell and that’s why Tulisa does it now – they wanted a young singer to replace her ”

5. “The judges in X Factor are similar to Roman Emperors watching gladiators fight and if they like them they will put their thumbs up to indicate they should survive. TV viewers are like the crowds hoping to see blood spilled or in this case, contestants humiliated.

Read these 5 statements about what someone knows about X factor. Which shows the deepest knowledge? How are they different from each other? How are they related to each other?

I am not sure about X Factor

I have several ideas about X Factor

I have one relevant idea about X Factor

I have several ideas about X Factor. I can link them to the big picture

I have several ideas about X Factor. I can link them to the big picture and can look at these ideas in a new and different way

Description Level of thinking & learning

I am not sure about…

Prestructural

I have one idea about… Unistructural

I have several ideas about… Multistructural

I have several ideas about…I can link them to the big picture…

Relational

I have several ideas about…. I can link them to the big picture and look at these ideas in a new and different way.

Extended Abstract

What do you know about …?

• Teacher: Give students the task of explaining what they know about a particular subject (this could be something you have already taught or something which you are planning to teach)

• Students: Your job is to show that your knowledge is at the relational or extended abstract level

Review

• What SOLO stage are you working on? • How can you improve?• Did you find this SOLO idea useful? How did it

help?• Did you find it not useful? Why didn’t it help?• Is there anything else that could be added to

help you use this idea.