Thinking Skills

موضوع: Thinking Skills الأربعاء مايو 18, 2011 10:40 am

The curriculum is designed to develop and promote children’s knowledge and understanding and this relies heavily on encouraging and developing a pupil's thinking skills. The 1950s saw the development of Bloom’s Taxonomy which introduced a list of thinking skills, categorized according to the processes involved. Six categories are identified which are split into two groups: concrete thinking skills and critical thinking skills.

While debate has continued over the definitions, the need to question children in certain ways has been accepted. Different types of questions produce different types of answers.

The essential skills needed for organising Information are:

* How to identify keywords
* Understanding keywords and language hierarchies
* Practise organising information – categorisation, identifying similarities and differences
* Discuss the big picture – see the whole as more than the sum of the parts

Developing these thinking skills gives a clear picture of just how intimately the structure of language shapes our world. Understanding the structure and hierarchy of words, and their contextual relationship in the creation of meaning is given sharp focus through the medium of mind mapping.

Mind mapping provides a tool that can integrate National Curriculum thinking skills seamlessly into subject based teaching. Learning a subject is mostly concerned with learning the language of that subject – the specialised language of a topic is the key to developing subject specific thinking. You do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information is traditionally given to you in a linear manner.
[img]http://www.r-e-m.co.uk/logo/companion/twp/intro_images/thinking_skills2.jpgbrown]You are effectively taught in a way that restricts your ability to think, because you naturally think in an associative way. You read in ways you do not write.

Before identifying relationships you need to be able to identify keywords, and these need to be embedded firmly in the context and purpose of your task. Identifying and using keywords is at the heart of model mapping.

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موضوع: رد: Thinking Skills الأربعاء مايو 18, 2011 12:18 pm

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موضوع: رد: Thinking Skills الأربعاء مايو 18, 2011 1:21 pm

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