Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Lead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL) @icjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL Wiki http:// pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com
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Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons
Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School,Lead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL) @icjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com
• Strategies for embedding Thinking Skills in Schemes of Work
• Ideas for developing a repertoire of Thinking Skills activities
• Ideas for using ICT to support the development of Thinking Skills
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Give opinions, assess/ criteria
Express rules, summarise, create
Identify patterns and rules
Predict, infer
Explain, describe, illustrate
Information recall: identify, list
Bloom’s Taxonomy• SYNTHESIS• Competition: Write excuses why you have not done
your homework/why you are late. • Using the tourist website for Martinique, invent your
own “advertising a holiday destination” practice task. • Brainstorm elements of a ghost story/fairy story,
research necessary language and write your own story.
• Poubelle/Basura – from a selection of evidence decide what might have happened to a missing person.
National Strategies Online Module
Pre new NC-5 types of Thinking Skills:• Information processing skills• Reasoning skills• Enquiry skills• Creative Thinking skills• Evaluation skills
PRICE
Information Processing Skills
• Locate and collect relevant information:Highlight positive adjectives, food suitable for vegetarians,Clothes you could buy as a present for your mother etc...
Sort, classify and sequence:By chronological order, gender, similar sounds, studentsclassify new phrases/ vocabulary and others to guess what the classification is.
Compare and contrast:e.g. Comparing example of verb endings/ adjectival Agreements to establish patterns.
Reasoning Skills
• Give reasons for opinions and actions• Draw inferences and make deductions• Make informed judgements and decisions Teacher’s questions must aim to give students opportunities to express reasons, deductions, judgements and decisions.
• Pourquoi c’est un passé composé?• Il est pour ou contre l’uniforme? Pourquoi? • Un livre vert, c’est bien. Comment dit-on “a green plant”?• What would you say if you had the complete opposite view?
Any more questions?
Enquiry Skills
• Ask relevant questionsStudents are shown text side-by-side with translationThey have 2 minutes to highlight what they understand And think of question about something they don’t Understand.
• Pose and define problemsShow examples of verbs following a specific rule mixedwith exceptions-where are the exceptions? Why?Canté Bailé Comí Escuché Fui Compramos
• Plan what to do and how to use a range of resourcesPlanning sheet, mindmaps
Creative Thinking Skills• Develop/ extend ideas• Write about it: newspaper article/ letter/presentation to penpal/ blog post/ short play/ poem/ story for young audience.http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirds • Talk about it: record an interview/ podcast (dialogue,News report, drama...) audio/ video
• Apply imaginationNightmare holiday/day, Famous for a day: who/what/why,Life Swap (dice), School of the future, My film (dice)Summer/ Winter uniform..
1=l’ école 2=les Bahamas 3=un château hanté4=un bateau de croisière 5=un stade 6=un musée
Raconte le film comme si tu étais dans le role princial!
Creative Thinking Skills
• Making links: Learners are given a selection of familiarwords and asked to make a concept map by adding connecting words between the words already on the list.
• Making links to other subjects Using music, drama, ICT, history, geography, PSHE...
• AnalogiesUnderstanding what is unfamiliar comparing/contrasting it with something that is familiar
Self Manager Activities• Sharing strategies to cope with the
unknown (reading/ listening): language challenge [document/ recording in a different language/ designed for natives)
E.g. L’ hôtel de ville• Prepare ICT presentation
– Presentation about self/ a chosen topic– Presentation about another culture– Grammar point
Independent Enquirer Activities
• Links with mathematics
– data handling– making predictions– presenting and interpreting data (table/ bar chart/ pie chart/ pictogram– Balance of diet– Leisure/school activities– Spending habits
Independent Enquirer Activities
• Mysteries
Problem solving activity based round a given central question that is open to more than one reasonable answer.
The information or 'clues' needed to answer the question are presented on separate slips of paper that your students will analyse, sort, sequence and link.
Independent Enquirer Activities• Mysteries ¿ Quién va a sufrir los problemas de salud y ¿ por qué?
Me llamo Bea. Tengo catorce años. Estoy estresada porque siempre estoy estudiando y nunca me relajo.
Estoy preocupada por los exámenes y no duermo bien durante la semana. Sin embargo los fines de semana duermo practicamente todo el tiempo.
Me llamo Javi y tengo quince años. Vivo en el norte de España con mi abuelo.
Me encanta hacer el ejercicio, no obstante bebo demasiado café.
Mis padres fuman y eso me preocupa mucho.
Soy muy gordo y no estoy en forma.
Mis amigos beben demasiado y toman drogas. Intentan convencerme para hacerlo.
Hace dos años mi abuela murió de un cáncer de los pulmones.
Debería hacer más ejercicio y comer menos. Hay que comer más verduras
El viernes pasado comimos en una hamburguesería.
Hacía el footing todos los días en el parque con mi primo.
Tengo que trabajar mucho ahora a causa de mis exámenes. No he estudiado bastante y tengo miedo.
Creative Thinkers Activities• Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice cream...• Invent mnemonics for particular vocabulary/
grammar rule • Poems: recipes, acrostics, calligrams, comparisons• Raps & rhythms• Songs: “Ne me quitte pas” Je ferai... • Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php
Team Worker Activities• Running dictation/ collective memory• Students work together to create or re-create a
text or a visual image in the form of a map, picture or diagram. Each student look at stimulus for a short period of time (e.g. 10 seconds) before returning to reproduce the original.
Embedding PLTS the BLP Way “The 6 clusters of qualities are more thanSkills that can be trained...The point is to cultivate these qualities intobecoming dispositions, or habits of mind...Cultivation of the PLTS should run through the curriculum, life and ethos of the school,like lettering through a stick of rock”.
Embedding PLTS • Aiming to deliver a wide variety of tasks in a varied way: impact onresource design and nature of interactions in classroom • Opportunities highlighted in SoWs & examples of activities shared• Focus on developing students’ skills and independence• Introducing Meta-language to talk about learning: mats, display• Overlaps with AFL and SEAL• Training of support staff• http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-cramlington-model-for-developing.h
*Schemes of Work: mapping out of Thinking Skills lesson opportunities
sharing PLTS objectives*Evidence of:• Collaborative team work [+Seating arrangement,Display] • Students using “meta-language”• Students as Independent learners• Cross-curricular support/time dedicated to skills