A Taste of PLTs

A Recipe for Success

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Background
• Year 7 CORE (now with added Year 8)
• Deep Learning Days
• New KS3 curriculum

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 The PLTs
Personal Skills Learning Skills Thinking Skills

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 The PLTs

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Foxford School 2010
 Strategies for developing
INDEPENDENT ENQUIRERS
• Question Frame

Other strategies:
• Thinking Hats
• Resource Stations

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
Traits of Independent
Enquirers

Risk
Ownership
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 Question Frame
• An essential tool in HOW to do
things.
• Best if developed by the students
themselves.
• Requires set up of an “impossible”
task

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 Your task
• Write as a group an omelette recipe.

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Foxford School 2010
 Debrief:
• To succeed in this task your omelette
should be an 8 person, mushroom
omelette made with skimmed milk,
as little oil and salt as possible, and
include the herb parsley.

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Thinking…
• What questions should you ask about
the task?

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Foxford School 2010
 07CO2 came up
with this! Task Checklist
Teacher I work It’s in the
Tells it out instructions
me

How long does it take?

Do I do it alone?
Where can I find the information?
What is difficult?
What do I like doing?
Where shall I start?
What is the most important task?
What do I need to have to complete the
task?
How does this fit into the lesson?
How am I going to do the task?
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Foxford School 2010
Traits of Independent
Enquirers

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Foxford School 2010
 The PLTs

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Foxford School 2010
Traits of Collaborative
Learners

Empathy
Adaptability
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 Strategies for developing
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
• Think, pair, share
• Expert teams

Other strategies:
• Roles in a team (Chairman, Secretary,
Timekeeper, Red-Herring spotter)
• Positive and Negative behaviour cards

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Foxford School 2010
 On your own

• Please make a list of as many foods

as you can think of.

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THINK
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 With a partner

• Compare your lists.

• Can you add to each others’ ideas?
• Does this make you think of any new
ideas to add?

PAIR
 In a group of 4

• Combine your ideas together

• Now categorise the foods that you
have listed. Decide first on your
categories.

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SHARE
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Traits of Collaborative
Learners

Empathy
Adaptability
 Becoming experts
• Number your team members 1, 2, 3,
&4
• You are going to form a new group
with all the people who share your
number

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Expert teams
• Your challenge is to create a menu that is
HEALTHY and BALANCED
• It must contain
– A starter
– A main course
– A pudding
– A snack for later

• You are each going to become an ‘expert’ in

a particular course first, before
COLLABORATING on your menu back in your
team.
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Foxford School 2010
 Becoming experts

• In your groups, discuss your ideas for

one course of a menuYour whole menu
– Team 1:
starters needs to be
– Team main courses healthy and
2:
– Team puddings! balanced so have
3:
several
– Team 4:
snacks
suggestions ready
• Be ready to feed back onceteam
for your you are
when
an expert you return
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
 Expert teams
• Your challenge is to
create a menu that
is HEALTHY and
BALANCED
• It must contain
–A starter
–A main course
–A pudding
–A snack for later

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
Traits of Collaborative
Learners

Empathy
Adaptability
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
Questions & Answers

Please be gentle!