DEVELOPING THINKING SKILLS IN THE LEARNERS’

CLASSROOM

Carlos Daniel Cazco Maldonado

UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DEL NORTE

IBARRA-ECUADOR

Looking into a classroom

Puchta, H, (2012). Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learners’ Classroom. United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.

Looking into a classroom

Puchta, H, (2012). Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learners’ Classroom. United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.

Thinking Skills

• Problem Solving

• Readers Theather

• Project Based Learning

PROBLEM SOLVING

• Picture

• Read

• Listen

• Observe: Video

Puchta, H, (2012). Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learners’ Classroom. United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.

READERS THEATER

• Literature (Reading)

• Rythm and Rhime: Pronunciation, Language Patterns, Chuncks

• Story Thinking or Telling: Situations. Real life, role plays

• Images and Imaginative thinkig

• Humor and small talk: Avoid formality, jokes, engage, social securityand acceptance

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COLLEGE HORIZONS Students’. Ibarra-Ecuador. Universidad Técnica del Norte

PROJECT BASED LEARNING

• Hypotheses

• Noticing Patterns

• Drawing Conclusions

• Trying to find rules

• Verifying

COLLEGE HORIZONS Students’. Ibarra-Ecuador. Universidad Técnica del Norte

COLLEGE HORIZONS Students’. Ibarra-Ecuador. Universidad Técnica del Norte

COLLEGE HORIZONS Students’. Ibarra-Ecuador. Universidad Técnica del Norte

COMBINING THE TEACHING OF THINKING WITH LANGUAGE TEACHING

• Meaningfull Activities

• Avoid the L1

• Picture Vocabulary

• Repetition

• Creating

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ACTIVITY TYPES

• Making comparisons

• Categorising

• Sequencing

• Focusing attention

• Memorising

• Exploring space

• Exploring time

• Exploring numbers

• Making associations

• Analysing cause and effect

• Making decisions

• Solving problems

• Creative thinking

CONCLUSIONS

• Think out of the BOX

• Combination of thinking skills

• Notice clearly the objectives we want to achive

• Do not get stuck / think creatively

• Be able to evaluate our actions

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Puchta, H, (2012). Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learners’Classroom. United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press.

• Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of Mind: The Theory of MultipleIntelligences. NewYork. Basic Books.

• Fisher, A. (2008). Critical Thinking. United Kingdom. CambridgeUniversity Press.

• Puchta, H. and Williams, M. (2011). Teaching Young Learners to Think.Innsbruck and Cambridge: Helling Languages and Cambridge UniversityPress.

THANKS A LOT

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• https://caiutn.wordpress.com/

• cdcazco@utn.edu.ec