These are my very brief notes from Day 2 of the Jamie McKenzie course looking at a Toolkit of Strategies for students to learn to help them so that when they are faced with a problem, they can dig into their Toolkit of strategies.
JM feels it’s important that students learn the terms for what you’re doing with them eg Clarifying Questions – “Have you got any clarifying questions?”
The term TOPIC is the enemy – they should have a Problem to solve, or a question.
In this way, the students are not finding out how much they can “SCOOP” ie collect from the internet. They are finding out what to do about a problem.
Thinking about Strategies
Questions need connections.
Go from headings.
Cluster diagrams that show interconnections (I think these are called Concept Maps – like brainstorms or mind-mapping but with the links between ideas annotated.)
Questions have hierarchy and inter-connectness.
Remember that when you try to fix a system, – identify all the components – when you push in one place, it may go up somewhere else. (Peter Sengay)
Problem-solving is synthesis.
Slice and Dice – keep the relationship to the main idea.
Intuition (as per the new NZ Curriculum)
How does this enhance my judgement? How does it differ from Instinct? Logic?
OPERATIONALISE
Means build it into the daily life of the school or class.
Portfolios – reflection – 3Log/artifact/link to Key to Success/Reflective writing.
Projecting (feed forward) the next stage of learning.
