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DevelopingHigher Order
ThinkingRobert Fisher
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Developing thinking and learning
This seminar will focus on:
developing higher order thinking skills
dialogic teaching and learning
the development of qualifications inScotland to support the Curriculum for
Excellence programme.
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What is the purpose of
education?Education
has for its purpose not the impartingof particular knowledge !ut the
strengthening of mental faculties"
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to cultivate the mind and develop characterRobert Fisher
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Why teach for thinking?
&f thinking is how we make sense of
experience then helping our children
to !ecome !etter thinkers will help
them to get more out of learning
and more out of life."
'isher( ). #*++,% Teaching ThinkingContinuum
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Thinking to Learn (HighlandCouncil)
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What are thinking skills?
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence is not an act, but a habit #-ristotle%
- thinking skill is:
a mental process learnt through practice
how we appl intelligence to a pro!lem our capacit to make /udgements
What is good thinking?
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Thinking Skills
$nowledge
0nderstanding 1 &nformation
-pplication processing
-nalsis 1 Critical thinking Snthesis 1 Creative thinking
Evaluation 2loom #3456% 'isher78ogan #9ighland 8E-%
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analysing and evaluating
CreatingS!A" Robert Fisher
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Dimensions of thinking
These dimensions of thinking at literal(strategic( and conceptual levels :
information processing
critical thinking
creative thinking
comparative evaluative"thinking
through self1reflection( dialogue and writing(characterise research.
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What is higher order thinking?
&ntellectuall challenging( requires effort
Complex and multi1varia!le
pen( uncertain( not routine or algorithmic
Seeks meaning( conceptual understanding
Evaluative( involving criteria for /udgement
;etacognitive( involves self1regulation
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#odels of dialogue
Speaking and listening< engaging in talk
Discussion groups< sharing views( ideas
Community of $n%uiry< seekingunderstanding via questioning( explaining(
hpothesising( reasoning( and evaluation of
concepts and claims to truth and knowledge 1 within a self1regulating democratic setting.
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Teachers and students as researchers
Thinking teachers and students enhanceteaching and learning ! research through:
questioning( pro!lem posingstuding multiple sources of informationappling higher order thinkingextending thinking through dialoguereviewing processes and outcomes
ow do we build research into the
curriculum? Robert Fisher