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Welcome to the Creek Street Thinking project. This is an interactive website for interested teachers to share their ideas and strategies for establishing thinking as a routine in their classrooms. This forum is one of 2 mechanisms through which teachers will be encouraged to communicate with each other. Through this blog, we will share examples of tasks and strategies that we are promoting in our classrooms, examples of student work, especially those with formative feedback, discussion about what particular strategies have worked and questions seeking advice in areas where others may help.The other mechanism will be school based with regular meetings between interested staff to develop tasks, lesson and unit plans and whole school approaches to establishing thinking routines across the curriculum.

Steve Tobias

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Think Pair share

I used the Think, Pair,Share model with my year 10 geography. I had a list of 40 capital cities and I wanted students to find out what country they belonged to. Instead of just looking up the countries in an Atlas students had to first list the countries that they knew. Students were then put into pairs to compare results and to see how many more countries they could obtain for the listed capital cities. It was hoped that when we compared answers as a class that we would obtain all countries. We missed out by about five. Our French exchange student was very helpful for the European countries. Students were fascinated that French students go to Spain, Germany etc for school excursions. The lesson I believe was a success and much more engaging than just looking up places in an Atlas.
Dale
July 24, 2008 10:24 AM
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