Creating a thinking culture
Engaging and challenging our students
Part 1
Who am I?
Find out what is written on your back
in 5 minutes.
Rules:
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You must ask every person in the room two questions
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You must not ask any more than five questions from one person
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Only answer questions that have a “Yes” or “No” answer
Objectives
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Improve our teaching so that it is
relevant and engaging and better
develops our students’ intelligence
and capacity for creative problem
solving.
Outcomes
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Learn new ways to promote learning and excite students.
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Add to your toolbox of strategies that develop higher level thinking in your students
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Hear about new strategies or be reminded of them, so that help you can ensure your
learning sessions are versatile and interactive
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Review your learning outcomes to ensure they have sufficient focus on employability
skills?
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Trial innovative and practical techniques that emphasise the fun in learning
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Learn how to ensure your lecture techniques can motivate, lead, inspire and prepare
your students for lifelong learning.
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Analyse problems and difficulties and figure out solutions
Framework for Workshop Participation
Why am I a teacher?
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
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Communication
Teamwork
Problem solving
Initiative and enterprise
Planning and organising
Self management
Learning
Technology
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Facts and
Knowledge
Personal
Attributes
Integrated
Teaching
and
Learning
Thinking
Capacity
Core /
Fundamental
Skills that
are discipline
- specific
Attitude,
Approach
People Skills
A Thinking Culture
Higher Order Thinking
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
Practical work task 3 –
Practical work task 4
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"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON, American writer and philosopher
Time to reflect
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Discipline-related Knowledge
Core Skills
Attitude
People Skills
Thinking Capacity
Personal Attributes
Other (list)
Question of the Day
How do you create a thinking culture?
De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats®
Practice Work Task 6
I 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 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.
share
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON, American writer and philosopher
Be back at 13:45 for a 1400 start