• What is it?
  • Why did we do it?
  • Question for reflection?
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Creativity  (which includes curiosity, intuition, imagination, originality, aesthetics and divergent thinking) is the intelligence where smart machines are at their very weakest  read more (link)

The obligation of educators should be to prepare our children to be a strong contributors in the years ahead.​
The nature  of the future workplace  is expected to be constantly changing, many will be doing more than one job at any given time and they may be very different kinds of jobs where learning is a constant. The curriculum will need to be structured in ways that reveal the big ideas in their core courses and demonstrate the power of the underlying conceptual structure to explain a wide range of phenomena.

The point of the teaching is not to provide basic facts  but to build deep understanding, strong thinking skills and the ability to learn and communicate all kinds of things. People who have the kind of education  just described will have an edge on intelligent machinery for years to come.​
Marc Tucker,President of the National Center on Education and the Economy, Washington, DC USA,  Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Key Learning Areas of Science & Mathematics, are we ensuring that our students have regular opportunities to:
  • be curious and pose questions,
  • engage in authentic and visible learning,
  • think critically and creatively, and
  • collaborate and communicate with others to develop their understandings and ideas?  Thornleigh West PS 2017
A LIST OF READINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND WEBSITES THAT WE USED. 

"THE QUALITY TEACHING FRAMEWORK IN YOUR PROGRAM: WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE"

Stonefield PS Growth Mindset strategy - The Pit (link)

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LIBRARY RESOURCE #7 "TALK PARTNERS"
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​'We need to provide an environment where students are comfortable making mistakes and believe that they can get better at just about everything with effort and support.'

​Learn more: www.mindsetworks.com/


Creativity: A teaching example

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Critical thinking:  a science & Tech scaffold

Curiosity

The Early Years Framework can be transferred to planning and designing authentic learning tasks.
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#5 enquiry based questioning

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'Effective questioning techniques can encourage students to verbalise and deepen their thinking.  This can provide the teacher with insight into the level of student understanding, allowing the teacher to direct the student towards the best path to move their learning forward.'

​Learn more: ch 2, Embedding Formative Assessment, Wiliam & Leahy
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#6 think / pair / share

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​'Students need to be able to learn from each other.  Think / Pair / Share allows students time to think their way through a problem, before sharing their ideas with a partner and later with the class.  The multiple contributions from students provide the class with a range of ideas to analyse - helping them learn to be open to more than one way of thinking AND consider their peers as fellow teachers.'


Learn more: Talk Partners (library resource 7)
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#8 the why? - authentic / relevant tasks

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'For students to see purpose in their learning, many need to see the learning's relevance.  Why are we learning this? How would this be used in real life. Making authentic, relevant tasks can help students to better visualise the application of this new knowledge.'
Learn more:

#9 the pit

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'The Pit is an example used by Stonefields PS that teaches students strategies to use when they feel that they are stuck and unsure what to do next.  It provides the students with a range of strategies to use to help themselves find answers and move their learning forward - further promoting the Growth Mindset.' - learn more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbGiMeLk_M

#10 formative assessment and differentiation

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'Students need personal challenges to ensure that they are moving forward in their learning.  Formative Assessment can allow the teacher to highlight areas for individual students to work on and challenges to keep the students on their toes.'
Learn more: ch 2, Embedding Formative Assessment, Wiliam & Leahy
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