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Year 7 Learning Teams 2009
Click on the links below to navigate to related & associated resources **Good Learning Behaviours** : - Taking pride in work, stays on task, think before you act, contributes positively to class discussions, range of thinking strategies, aware of own thinking.
 * Assessment **: - Click here for Checklists and Rubrics
 * =====General Skills ===== || Planning models / frameworks (Teaching and Learning Strategies) || =====Thinking Tools / Graphic Organisers ===== || =====Questioning ===== || =====Personal Learning ===== || =====Co-operative Learning ===== ||
 * Organisational Skills and time Management - diaries etc

Presentation Skills (taking pride in work)

Observation Skills

Study Skills - preparing for tests. learning new material

Note-taking Skills

Active Listening ||  Revised Blooms

Learning Styles (Whole Brain Learning)

Multiple Intelligences ||  Mind Maps

Concept Maps (inspiration)

Organising information - Data Charts

//Sequencing// - Flow charts, ranking ladders, Storyboards

//Compare & Contrast// -Venn diagrams, comparison charts

KWL (explore prior knowledge)

De Bono's DATT - CAF (all factors) - FIP (prioritse) - PMI (evaluate, unpack)

//Creative thinking// SCAMPER (generate new, alternative ideas - creative thinking) Lotus diagram (creative thinking, critical analysis)

SCUMPS (analyses features, critical thinking) RAFT (role, audience, format, topic) || Open and closed questions

5 focus questions

Asking appropriate questions at appropriate time || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflection sheets (aware of own thinking)

Self-assessment

Habits of Mind - perseverance (stays on task), not impulsive (think before act)

Use specific language to describe thinking || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Class manifesto

Seating plans

Guidelines for small group discussion (contribute positively to class discussion)

Roles in groups

Conflict resolution || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thinking Learning PLC Home