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With Mike Fleetham
Smart Tools for Thinking and
LearningGeneric learning activities for
engagement, progress and mastery
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Mike Fleetham learning designer & educational consultant
Ex-electronics engineer
Teacher for 8 years, then assistant headteacher
Bestselling book 45,127th
Teacher (FS – Yr13), Learning designer for 14 yrs, Realtime Coach
Life goal: to enrich the life, work and learning of 1,000,004 people every year
Author, Father
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@miketweetham thinkingclassroom Mike Fleetham
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Workshop Aims
• Understanding the key features of classroom ‘Smart Thinking Tools’
• Experience 5 high impact classroom tools that work in any lesson
• Customise generic tools ready for immediate use back in school
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5 tools
• Using Images for thinking and learning
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For you, which image best represents this year?
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Line Up by
Longest journey you plan to take over the Summer holiday
Another country
Lounge-Kitchen. And back.
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Line Up by
birth date (no talking at all!)
(month/day – not year)
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Draw line in book
Lesson Objective
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Point
how tough this year has been so far (maybe discuss
why?)
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Line Up by
your thinking style
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5 tools
• Using images for thinking and learning• Line ups and variations
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Content, List, Prompt,
Source, Word, Image, Sound, Video clip etc.
Basic Idea:
Thinking Prompt 1
Thinking Prompt 3
Thinking Prompt 2Thinking Prompt 4
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2 x 44 x 46 x 4
10 x 412 x 4
Do a better listWhat’smissing?
What comes after?
What came before?
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likewisemeanwhile
nowotherwisesuddenly
Do a better listWhat’smissing?
What comes after?
What came before?
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• I went through a secret door.• I slipped quietly though the open top floor window.• I began to dissolve piece by piece, with each stroke I
took, swimming through the magic lake.• As the cool mountain dawn broke I knew that the
conditions were perfect; so I focussed my mind, imagined a gap between this world and the parallels, then stepped through - just as Hermes had done moments before.
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What comes after?
What came before?
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Do a bett
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What comes after?
What came before?
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What comes after?
What came before?
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Content, List,
Prompt,Source
Put them in orderMake it harder
Plan to teach it to someone else
Alternatives:
Rank themReverse/oppositesMake it easier
Add to it
Create 1 easy, 1 medium, 1 difficult question
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What else is there?
A better oneA worse one
A single feature
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? Do a better list
What’smissing?
What comes after?
What came before?
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5 tools
• Using images for thinking and learning• Line ups and variations• 4-Way Thinking
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Is more X than Is less Y than
Is opposite to
Is Is not
Is better than Is worse than
A. B. C. D. E.
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Is more than Is less than
Is opposite to
Is Is not
Is better than Is worse than
A. M Gove B. C. D. E.
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Alternative connection prompts
Is similar to
Contradicts
Reinforces
Will cause
Develops
Adds to
Depends on
Supports
Same colour as
Same shape as
Same 1st letter
Same sound
Same last letter
Same texture
Same use
Same mass
3 features in common
Nothing in common
Undermines
Upholds
Transforms
Eliminates
Augments
Creates
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Is better than
Is like Is not like
A. B. C.
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5 tools
• Using images for thinking and learning• Line ups and variations• 4-Way Thinking• Arch Thinking
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Mark out a flip chart page like this and make sure everyone can write on it at the same time.(one edge space for each person – this one is for a group of 6)
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Individual thinking and writing: Write or draw your response to these 3 things:1. I would use <thinking tool> because...2. I would not use <thinking tool> because...3. I would like to know…..Don’t share yet! 5 minutes
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IN TURN,sweep* round the group, sharing with each other. Share out the time 6 minutes
After all have spoken, discuss share ideas etc.
*Sweep = ring-fenced time for speaker: no interruptions, questions, comments or challenges. However, write comments, questions, ideas here
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TOGETHER,Rank the 4 tools.
(5 minutes)
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5 tools
• Using images for thinking and learning• Line ups and variations• 4-Way Thinking• Arch Thinking• DoNut Thinking
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Mike FleethamLearning Design Consultant
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