Helping Your Pupils to Ask Questions (Little books of life skills)

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Asking questions has always been fundamental to making sense of the world. Unless we are able to critically question what we see, hear and read, we can’t solve problems, create solutions, make informed decisions or enact change. And in our information-laden age, it is more important than ever to be able to decide what’s relevant, legitimate and valuable.  Helping your pupils to ask questions describes in-detail how questions can generate various levels of cognition, from remembering, understanding and applying to analysing, creating and evaluating. Focusing on the many different kinds of questions and ways that teachers themselves can model good questioning, this book shows teachers how they can help their pupils develop questioning skills through encouragement and a wide variety of targeted approaches.   The book also suggests ways to set up a question-friendly classroom, provides teaching strategies and pupil activities and gives notes on assessment and record-keeping. It is complemented by several pages of proformas, which can be copied or amended for use in the classroom.

Education & Teaching

Godinho, Sally

Wilson, Jeni

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Helping your Pupils to Think for Themselves (Little books of life skills)

Possibly the biggest challenge teachers face in the classroom is getting their pupils to think for themselves. When children learn to think independently, they are able to take control of their own learning. What’s more, they become good at dealing with the many problems that life will inevitably throw their way – not only good at solving these problems, but at choosing the kind of thinking strategies that will help solve them. Helping your pupils to think for themselves defines the various types of thinking (critical, creative, reflective) and discusses in detail the most crucial type of thinking for student progress – metacognition, which invoves self-assessment, active decision making and personal goal setting. Focusing on how to choose and use a particular type of thinking or strategy for a particular purpose, this book shows teachers how they can do a audit of their pupils’ thinking skills and identify their pupils’ thinking preferences and dispositions, to foster a thinking culture in their classrooms and ensure that all their pupils become skilled and independent thinkers. This book suggests ways to organise the classroom, provides teaching strategies and pupil activities and gives notes on assessment and record-keeping. It is complemented by several pages of proformas, which can be copied or amended for use in the classroom.

Murdoch, Kath

Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning. Including case studies describing teachers’ methods for linking theory to practice, this user-friendly, photocopiable resource demonstrates how to: <ul>
<li>construct a learning community</li> <li>encourage collaborative learning</li> <li>share strategies for engaging individual learners</li> <li>provide a scaffold for strategic thinking in the classroom</li> <li>link assessment procedures to learning</li> <li>showcase the practice and outcomes of purposeful curriculum planning.</li> </ul> Any teacher who wants to practically tailor their teaching practice to meet the needs of individual learners will find this an invaluable resource.

Creating A Learner-centred Primary Classroom: Learner-centred Strategic Teaching (David Fulton Book)

David Fulton Publishers

Learning for Themselves: Pathways for Thinking and Independent Learning in the Primary Classroom

In a world of rapidly changing knowledge which requires new and transferable skills, classrooms are increasingly being viewed as places where pupils learn how to learn. In order to help pupils develop new skills, teachers must encourage them to work independently and manage themselves as learners. Learning for Themselves offers teachers a repertoire of effective strategies and frameworks to nurture independent learning. The chapters are organised into four broad areas: <ul>
<li>learning preferences</li> <li>thinking</li> <li>inquiry</li> <li>personal challenges.</li> </ul> Each section includes learning tasks covering commonly addressed topics in primary school curriculums, with each task designed to be adapted by students and teachers to suit particular interests and a range of teaching and learning goals. Photocopiable learning proformas for each task, and additional proforma resources are included to assist teachers and pupils when planning, managing, monitoring and keeping records associated with independent learning. Saving valuable planning time for teachers, this book offers a creative and effective way to encourage pupil's independence and will appeal to all teachers who aim to equip their pupils with transferable skills.

Smart Thinking helps primary school teachers to develop their pupil's capacities to become deep thinkers and independent learners. Supporting the creation of a thoughtful classroom that provides opportunities for pupil's negotiation, goal setting and decision making, this book encourages the teaching of reflection and metacognition, providing pupils the tools they need to be able to evaluate and regulate their own thinking.  Packed with ideas, planning tools and photocopiable proformas, this book will help teachers work with their pupils to help develop skills and dispositions which are beneficial and transferable to pupils of all ages and abilities. Key aspects of teaching and learning covered include:    planning for learning by setting individual goals selecting, using and monitoring appropriate strategies identifying own thinking processes making reasoned judgements asking powerful questions being careful observers.   This comprehensive resource is essential for all teachers who wish to empower their pupils to take responsibility for their learning and their interpersonal relationships.

Smart Thinking

Wing Jan, Lesley

By encouraging children to think about their learning and to become aware of and control their thinking processes, teachers can help children to become active, responsible learnerslearners who can make their own decisions, choose appropriate strategies, assess their own work, and set their own goals.

Thinking for Themselves

Heinemann

Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom: Learner-centered Strategic Teaching

Possibly the biggest challenge teachers face in the classroom is getting their pupils to think for themselves. When children learn to think independently, they are able to take control of their own learning. What’s more, they become good at dealing with the many problems that life will inevitably throw their way – not only good at solving these problems, but at choosing the kind of thinking strategies that will help solve them.   Helping your pupils to think for themselves defines the various types of thinking (critical, creative, reflective) and discusses in detail the most crucial type of thinking for student progress – metacognition, which invoves self-assessment, active decision making and personal goal setting. Focusing on how to choose and use a particular type of thinking or strategy for a particular purpose, this book shows teachers how they can do a audit of their pupils’ thinking skills and identify their pupils’ thinking preferences and dispositions, to foster a thinking culture in their classrooms and ensure that all their pupils become skilled and independent thinkers.   This book suggests ways to organise the classroom, provides teaching strategies and pupil activities and gives notes on assessment and record-keeping. It is complemented by several pages of proformas, which can be copied or amended for use in the classroom.

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Helping Your Pupils to Ask Questions (Little books of life skills)

Helping your Pupils to Think for Themselves (Little books of life skills)

Creating A Learner-centred Primary Classroom: Learner-centred Strategic Teaching (David Fulton Book)

Learning for Themselves: Pathways for Thinking and Independent Learning in the Primary Classroom

Smart Thinking

Thinking for Themselves

Learning for Themselves: Pathways for Thinking and Independent Learning in the Primary Classroom

Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom: Learner-centered Strategic Teaching

Helping Your Pupils to Ask Questions (Little books of life skills)

Helping your Pupils to Think for Themselves (Little books of life skills)