SSAT Conference 2016

Madly, Deeply, Truly:

Are You Leading a Thinking School?

Ian Gilbert, Independent Thinking

@ITLWorldwide

Madly

Mental Limbering Up:

1: 2:3:

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Mental Limbering Up

1: Everything is connected

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Madly

1: Everything is connected

2: See what everyone else

sees but think new thoughts

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Madly

Mental Limbering Up:

Madly

Mental Limbering Up:

Madly

1: Everything is connected

2: See what everyone else

does but think new thoughts

3: Break the rules

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Madly

Creativity as

Refusal

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‘Do things no-one does or do

things everyone does in a way

no-one does.’

Deeply

Mental Limbering Up:

Deeply

Questions I

Deeply

8 Way Thinking

Deeply

Verbal/linguistic

Visual/spatial

Body/physical

Logical/mathematical

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Natural

Musical

Deeply

Words

Sights

Actions

Numbers

People

Feelings

Nature

Sounds

Deeply

Deeply

Birmingham

Deeply

Questions II

Deeply

Self

Organised

Learning

Environments

Deeply

“The teacher needs to provide stimulus –

lots of it – in the form of ‘big questions’.

These must include questions to which

the teacher, or perhaps anyone, does not

have the answer...

Deeply

“The teacher needs to provide stimulus –

lots of it – in the form of ‘big questions’.

These must include questions to which

the teacher, or perhaps anyone, does not

have the answer...

These should be the sorts of questions

that will occupy people’s minds

perpetually.”

Sugata Mitra

Deeply

Questions III

In your opinion…

‘What do you think?’

‘What does that mean to you?’

‘What would you do if you were…?’

‘What would happen if…?’

‘Why do you say that?’

‘Do you agree?’

‘What does that mean?’

‘What would that lead to?’

‘Where did that thought come from?’

‘Guess!?’

‘What could that mean?’

‘What may happen next?’

‘What could an answer be?’

‘How would you solve the problem?’

‘What do you think it means?’

‘What do you feel is right?’

Deeply

In your opinion…

‘What do you think?’

‘What does that mean to you?’

‘What would you do if you were…?’

‘What would happen if…?’

‘Why do you say that?’

‘Do you agree?’

‘What does that mean?’

‘What would that lead to?’

‘Where did that thought come from?’

‘Guess!?’

‘What could that mean?’

‘What may happen next?’

‘What could an answer be?’

‘How would you solve the problem?’

‘What do you think it means?’

‘What do you feel is right?’

Deeply‘Who do you feel is right?’

‘Do you disagree?’

‘Why do you think that?’

‘Why did they think that?’

‘Where did that idea come from?’ ‘How

sure are you that that is the right

answer?’

‘What is your solution to…?’

‘How might others see this?’

‘Is that your best answer or your first

answer?’

‘What could this mean?’

‘How does this link with that…?’

‘When might that not be true?’ ‘Where

might that not be true?’ ‘Have another

guess?’

‘What if the opposite were true…?’,

‘Could the opposite be true?’

Deeply

‘I disagree with

your opinion,

persuade me…’

Deeply

Questions IV

Questions only…?

“Es necesario desarrollar una

pedagogía de la pregunta. Siempre

estamos escuchando una pedagogía

de la respuesta. Los profesores

contestan a preguntas que los

alumnos no han hecho.”

Paulo Freire

Truly…

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Thunks

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Is a broken-down

car parked?

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One sentence

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