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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 [email protected]
My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.comPLTS 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
From Thinking Skills to PLTS and more…
• Using the National Strategies online modules (« Nuggets »)
• PLTS in the new Secondary Curriculum
• Building Learning Power
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 Modules
• Were at the start of the drive to promote Thinking Skills.
• http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/mfl
• Click on CPD => Module11: Thinking Skills (log-in needed)
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
Enquiry Skills• 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..
Creative Thinking SkillsMy Film dice game (can be done in English or TL)
A. Le role principal
1=une petite fille 2=un adolescent 3=une grand-mère4=une tortue 5=une danseuse 6=un chanteur de rock
B. L’ événement principal
1=un spectacle 2=des vacances horribles 3=un cambriolage4=un voyage 5=un concert 6=une course
B. Le lieu principal
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 principal!
Creative Thinking Skillshttp://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirdshttp://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm
Creative Thinking Skillshttp://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirdshttp://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm
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
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.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1751079/Me_gusta
Analogies
• Create pairs of related words:Père etChaussures et
MèrePieds
• Make/guess the analogy:Manger + bois =Maison + douche =
TableSalle de bains
• Use unusual image/ sound associations: Students’ own Equitación (galloping sound)
Je suis (I eat sweet)Pink car (voiture is feminine)Blue car (coche is masculine)
Evaluation Skills
• Develop criteria for judging the value of what theyread, hear and do
2 stars and 1 wish Peer assessment (peer assessed by...)wikis
Evaluation Skills
• Develop criteria for judging the value of what theyread, hear and do: wikis http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/8qF1
Evaluation Skills
• Develop criteria for judging the value of what theyread, hear and do: Wikis http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/8qF1
Evaluation Skills• Evaluate Information (Text/Picture)What is it/sort of text is it?Who is it aimed at? How do you know?What is inside?
PLTS in the New Secondary National Curriculum
independent enquirer
creative thinker
reflective learner
effective participator
team worker
self manager
PLTS in the New Secondary National Curriculum
6 groups of Personal Learning Thinking Skills:
• Self-Manager• Independent Enquirer• Creative Thinker• Reflective Learner• Effective Participator • Team Worker
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
Creative Thinkers Activities• Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice cream...• Invent mnemonics for particular vocabulary/
grammar rule
Je
N’
pas
aime
Creative Thinkers Activities• Poems: Recipes
• Pour faire un bon ami, il faut:• Deux cuillères de générosité• Beaucoup de sourires• Ecouter pendant des heures• Partager à la fin
Creative Thinkers Activities• Poems: acrostics and calligrams
nOrd de l’AngleterreTrop de pLuie
inDustrielHumide
Ateliers textilesIl y a un Marché
What other types of words could we use?
Names of people/ pets, favourite place/ holiday/ food/ hobbies/ colour/ music....
Creative Thinkers Activities• Poems: calligrams (word mosaic)• Image Chef: http://www.imagechef.com
How would you use these symbols?What other symbols might you find useful?
Creative Thinkers Activities• Raps & rhythms
j’ai un chat, Hannibal
tu as un animal?
elle a un chien.
nous avons un lapin
vous avez des lions?
elles ont deux serpents longs
j’ai des poissons.
Le Rap
Creative Thinkers Activities• Songs/ Poems: Ne Me quitte pas (Jacques Brel)• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfegOxTCuOQ
Creative Thinkers Activities• Rebus : Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php
Je m’appelle Isabelle
C’est lundi
J’aime les chats blancs
Reflective Learners Activities
• Odd one out
raison saison pantalon couleur
Gender, phonic pattern, plural, verb, agreement, alphabetical, abstract, linked...
• Fact or opinion
On mange mieux en France qu’en AngleterreDiscute + range les phrases selon leurs catégories
Reflective Learners Activities
• Intercultural understanding-identify features
Reflective Learners Activities• 2 stars and a wish (direct/ post-it notes/
wallwisher) http://www.wallwisher.com
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/wjn8yXcz14
Effective Participator Activities• Teach part of the lesson: from initial
vocabulary input to re-introducing the past tense for regular –er verbs
• Get involved in outreach activities: resources for Primary (mini books, recording stories, using video-conferencing), open evening
• Organising a languages club/ café • Involvement in activities to prepare for a trip,
exchange, option evening• Displays, videos, LAFTA competition...
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.
• Mysteries• Living graphs• Wikis
Team Worker ActivitiesLiving Graphs
Team Worker Activities
• Collaborative Writing Task: • Wikis http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/l%27histoire+sans+fin
Further ideas and examples– Secondary Strategy Leading in Learning
materials
http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/96254?uc=force_uj
– Thinking Through MFL, Mei Lin & Cheryl
Macky, Chris Kington Publishing– Curriculum Now! Rachel Hawkes, ALL– PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com
Embedding PLTS the BLP Way
BLP?
Building Learning Power
Prof. Guy Claxton
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 the BLP Way The 4 Rs
Resilience: absorption, managing distractions, noticing, perseverance
Resourcefulness: questioning, making links, imagining, reasoning, capitalising
Reflectiveness: planning, revising, distilling,meta-learning
Reciprocity: interdependance, collaboration,
empathy and listening
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
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• http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-approach-for-languages-at.html
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How embedded are your Thinking Skills/ PLTS?
*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
building across the curriculum
• 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
Points for Action?
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
Wiki: PLTS in MFL http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/