Developing Thinking

This toolkit focuses on developing thinking skills for learners in the 21st century through various activities and strategies, linking to the curriculum, learning, teaching, assessment, and personalized support. It emphasizes Higher Order Skills and encourages reflecting, planning, and implementing new learning opportunities that enhance critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.

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1. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit HGIOS4 Where does it link to How Good is Our School? 2.2 Curriculum 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessment 2.4 Personalised support

2. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Agenda Activity 1 Introduction / Starter Activity (5 mins) Activity 2 How s it going / feedback (10-20 mins) Activity 3 New Learning (25-40 mins) Activity 4 Personal Action Planning (10 mins) Activity 5 Summary of Learning (5 mins)

3. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 1: Voice on the table In a maximum of 30 seconds, share your thoughts on the image below.

4. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 1: Higher Order Skills Developing Thinking This video introduces the work of the Curriculum for Excellence - Higher Order Skills group in developing the use of taxonomies to develop Thinking Skills. Higher Order Skills: Developing Thinking

5. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 2: How s it going? Reflecting on your answer to the last question, independently complete the Thinking Skills Across Learning audit. Where are we? What evidence do we have?

6. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 3: New Learning It is important that all learners are given appropriate opportunities to develop their thinking skills. These skills can be developed across a range of contexts including through more practical or applied learning opportunities: Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating Creating CfE: Building the Curriculum 4

7. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 3: New Learning CfE: Building the Curriculum 4 Where do the skills in the previous slide feature within the above CfE Experiences and Outcomes?

8. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 3: New Learning Using the template titled Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum, begin to plan where each of the 6 Thinking Skills detailed within Building the Curriculum 4 could take place in your programmes of work. Primary: Literacy programmes and literacy across learning Secondary: Subject-specific learning and literacy across learning

9. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 4: Personal Action Planning Over the coming weeks, look for opportunities to prioritise Thinking Skills in your teaching. Choose one or two elements that you are going to explore and evaluate. Bring back your findings to the next session

10. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit Activity 5: Summary of Learning Write your name on the card or post-it and one example of where you will develop Thinking Skills with learners. Leave your card or post-it on your way out.

11. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit FOLLOW UP LINKS: Education Scotland - Thinking Skills Scottish Government - BTC4

12. Developing Thinking Thinking Skills for 21st century learners Literacy Toolkit FOLLOW UP LINKS: CfE - Developing Skills Bloom's Question Fans