Thinking Skills Resources
Posted on June 1, 2007
Filed under Thinking Skills
Here are some websites and other resources to do with the use of thinking skills:
The QCA’s site which has details about personal, learning and thinking skills in RS – I haven’t looked at them and so I don’t know how useful they will be http://www.qca.org.uk/secondarycurriculumreview/subject/ks3/re/index.htm
The following is from the Nottinghamshire School Workforce Development site – it summorises different strategies, again I have not looked at all of these, so I’m not sure exactly how useful they are. There does not appear to be any thing specifically to do with RS – although therer are suggestions for some subjects. http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/learningandwork/cpd/cpd-teaching/cpd-teaching-thinkingskills.htm
Mike Fleetham’s Thinking Classroom – You can subscribe to a monthly email which gives thinking skills resources with suggestions about how to use them within different subject areas. There are lots of other resources too, including teacher forums. http://www.thinkingclassroom.co.uk/Default.aspx
A free graphic organiser which incorporates De Bono’s 6 hat thinking skills http://www.thinks.co.nz/st_freebies.html
The QCA’s guidance on teaching gifted and talented students and the use of thinking skills http://www.nc.uk.net/gt/re/teaching_thinkingskills.htm
“Teaching expertise” website – this has articles, blogs and lots of other resources http://www.teachingexpertise.com/
The DfES “Standards Site” – this site has case studies and resources including exemplar worksheets http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystage3/casestudies/cs_fs_re_thinking
Developing Independent Learning Skills through Religious Education – A downloadable pdf file http://www.farmington.ac.uk/documents/new_reports/TT204.pdf
Will Ord’s web site which has RS and P4C resources http://www.thinkingeducation.co.uk/reledu.htm
Some Smartboard files for thinking skills from Kirklees-ednet http://www.kirklees-ednet.org.uk/subjects/re/resources/thinking_skills_templates.htm
The Dialogue works site, which has a good overview of what we mean by thinking skills http://www.dialogueworks.co.uk/dw/Thinking%20Skills%20Education.html
The Literacy Trust site – has lots of links etc. http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/thinking.html
This site includes a section called “Teaching Thinking Skills” – this includes specific terms and core thinking skills. http://www.logo.com/twp/vocab.html Also, some free resources http://www.logo.com/twp/teaching_resources.html
A blog entry with a discussion about mind-mapping and concept maps – also includes links to various pieces of software etc http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/10/thinking_in_pic.html
An article (very long!) about Concept Maps and how to construct them http://depts.washington.edu/biology/hhmi/conceptmaps/Novak%20et.al.,%202006.pdf
“Making Ideas Come Alive” by Oliver Caviglioli & Tina Detheridge http://www.logo.com/reviews/Making%20ideas%20come%20alive.pdf
“Higher order thinking skills” http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/hots/introductiontohots/learning.htm
“Teaching Thinking & Creativity” Includes articles and links to resources http://www.teachthinking.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
The Thinking Curriculum – article by John Nisbet http://www.scre.ac.uk/rie/nl47/nl47nisbet.html
Tony Buzan’s Mind Mapping website http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/
“Teaching Thinking & Creativity” Robert Fisher’s website – has several downloadable articles http://www.teachingthinking.net/
A set of 10 “Thinking Skills” posters to download – no good for RS, but worth looking at if you teach another subject. http://www.bucksgfl.org.uk/resources/mod/resource/view.php?id=2592
Download the KS 3 National Stratgey “Leading in Learning: developing thinking skills at KS3″. There is also a planning template http://www.bucksgfl.org.uk/resources/mod/resource/view.php?id=2589
Download the KS3 National Strategy Exemplification in RS http://www.bucksgfl.org.uk/resources/mod/resource/view.php?id=2606
Assorted documents for subject leaders concerning thinking skills http://www.bucksgfl.org.uk/resources/mod/resource/view.php?id=2616
Lots of files from the brilliant Paul Ginnis, author of the Teachers Toolkit. Many of the ideas are from the book. http://www.pembschool.org.uk/learning/
Information from the Standards Site http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/thinkingskills/resources/?view=get&view=Family+Map
The Thinking Classroom http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/index.cfm
From Thinking skills to thinking classroom – article www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RB115.doc
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