thinking

A week or so back we had Rob Swartz from National Centre for Teaching Thinking in our school for a couple of days.

Rob has done a lot of work on how to get thinking 'infused' into the teaching in schools. Infused so it can be transferred between curriculum areas, contexts, and year levels. To often we teach a thinking strategy in isolation and it does not get embedded into our learners. I really like his books around infusing critical and creative thinking. They are teacher friendly and usable.

So we are developing our Whangaparaoa College thinking strategy to get thinking implemented across the school in a timely and active way. This will be the first of the key competencies of the new curriculum that we will have an implementation plan in place.

I have been concerned around some of the implementation as being to slow and considered. It may be impulsive to jump in but impulsive action is not always bad. It just needs to be managed.

As well we need digital versions of the curriculum or does everyone need to retype it!!!!