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Blooms Taxonomy
Remember(Knowledge)
Understand (Comprehension)
Apply (Application)
Analyse (Analysis)
Evaluate (Evaluation)
Create (Synthsis)
Turn the order upside down for

GATE children
Knowledge:
Knowledge: arrange, define, duplicate, label, list,
memorize, name, order, recognize, relate, recall,
repeat, reproduce state.
Comprehension:
Comprehension: classify, describe, discuss, explain,
express, identify, indicate, locate, recognize, report,
restate, review, select, translate,
Application:
Application: apply, choose, demonstrate, dramatize,
employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice,
schedule, sketch, solve, use, write.
Analysis:
Analysis: analyze, appraise, calculate, categorize,
compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate,
distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test.
Synthesis:
Synthesis: arrange, assemble, collect, compose,
construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage,
organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up, write.
Evaluation:
Evaluation: appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose
compare, defend estimate, judge, predict, rate, core,
select, support, value, evaluate.
http://www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm
Six Thinking Hats
White Hat facts, questions

Red Hat feelings, intuitions
Yellow Hat positive, why it will work, success
Black Hat caution, weak points
Green Hat creative, alternatives
Blue Hat overview, summary
http://wwwfp.education.tas.gov.au/engl
ish/sixhats.htm
Gardners Multiple Intelligences

Howard
Gardner first discussed his theory of Multiple Intelligences in

his 1983 publication Frames of Minds, in order to explain and
identify the variety of ways that individuals are "smart". While
some students are smart with words or self, and some are smart
with people or nature, others have mathematical, physical, spatial
or musical talents. It is the way that those people best understand,
know and learn about the world around them.
www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au
http://www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/thinking/MI
%20Smarts/smarts.htm
Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"):

Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")
Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
Musical intelligence ("music smart")
Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")
Tony Ryans Thinkers Keys
Tony Ryan first introduced his Thinkers Keys in the 1980s but
we think his keys are still an effective way to introduce
different ways of higher-order thinking to our students.
Thinkers Keys can be easily included in contract activities,
homework tasks, journal writing activities, extension tasks
and as part of a Bloom's and Multiple Intelligence approach
to teaching and learning.
www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au
http://www.kurwongbss.qld.edu.au/think
ing/Think%20Keys/keys
%20explained.htm
Decision-Making Matrix
Helps children to see that taking everything into consideration is

important when making a decision.
Children could suggest criteria or factors that would need to be
considered when making decisions.
For example: buying a house
Price
House A
$200,000
House B
$250,000
House C
$300,00
Other factors???
Can you think of other factors? Include these on your matrix now. Think
about how you could use this in staff meetings, classroom
programmes???
PMI
PMI is a simple way to analyse.

Pcan mean Plus / Positives
Mcan mean Minus / Negatives
Ican mean Interesting / Issues
It can be used in the classroom programmes and staff meetings to
help groups to see the big picture and help to make decisions.
An extension to the PMI can be to have an extra column down the left
hand side to include perspectives from other people.
Energy Saving Light
bulbs
Perspectives
Plus
Minus
Power companies
Consumers
(customers)
Health Officials
Interesting
Extent Barometer
Helps children to analyse a situation
by putting main points of a story,
event or experience in perspective
by ranking them on the barometer.
Eg: Read the story Dr Dog
To what extent was Dr Dog over
worked?
100
Very
High
75
Fairly
High
50
Medium
25
Low
None at
all
Eg: Read the novel HOLES

To what extent was Stanley guilty?
To what extent was the camp extreme
in their way of punishing the boys?
To what extent was Stanleys will to
leave Camp Greenlake?
KWL
K = What I know (Facts)
W = What I Want to know (Questions)
L = What I have Learnt
Excellent strategy to use at the start of a unit children can add to the
last part what I have learnt. Can also be used at a staff meeting or
a discussion.
It helps to develop thinking from the knowledge to abstract (questions)
to the analytical ( children would need to evaluate the information
they receive)
The what I want to know encourages the children to ask good
questions that will then encourage them to be good investigators and
detectives to find the answers.
The next stage what I have learnt - will allow children to make
conclusions but to also see connections and may also be a catalysts
for more questions and research.
SWOT Analysis
Excellent thinking strategy for analysing groups or important
proposals, decisions or suggestions.
Children would categorise internal and external factors as Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. SWOT.
Internal factors: Strengths and weaknesses
External factors : Opportunities and threats
Process:
1. Decide on the topic to be analysed
2. Create a SWOT using the template
3. Write the issue to be discussed next to the heading topic
4. Complete the operation ( sounds like a police operation!)
Suggested topics???? Treaty of Waitangi Settlers Maori, Myself as a
learner in my classroom, Animals eg:kiwi
T Bar Analysis
A simple and quick way to summarise information from a written

source and present it visually. It is used to compare two sources.
Eg: Silver Ferns v Australia Netball Team - Test Saturday 21 July
2007
ODT Source
Australian Newspaper source
List ideas chn make a summary
Tournament Prioritizing
Encourages rational decision making. It will help children ( and adults) to
justify and prioritise their decisions. (Top end thinking in Blooms
analyse and evaluate)
Process 1. Create a context eg: What do we need to take to school camp
2. Use a noisy round robin with teams of 3 -4 to gather items list
3. Ask group to decide what is the most important item
4. Each group has a tournament prioritising sheet, the first item written
is called item one and this must be seeded number 1 the second item is
seeded number 16, item 3 is number 2, item 4 is number 15 and so on
5. In teams of two, three or four children decide on items that will be
eliminated. Children must justify their reasons. They need to be rational
and persuasive!
6. Once all groups have prioritised, the teacher can record the ranking of
the groups on the board and replay the tournament prioritiser until and
overall winner is found.
Lots of fun!!! Lots of great discussion.
Y chart
A good way to respond to a situation, proposal or a problem. A Y chart will demand
effective thinking, discussion and responding.
It relies far more on the senses, intuition and imagination
Process
1. Decide on a topic eg: leadership qualities
2. Draw a Y chart
3. In the looks like area brainstorm and record everything you would expect to
see happening around a good and effective leader- what they look like what is
happening.
4. In the sounds like area record all the sounds associated with a leader
commands specific about tasks, include words, sentences you have heard
5. Feels like record all the things you would feel eg: a sense of team work, pride,
success, challenge
Children then from the information gathered, could develop a set of criteria that could
be used for a leader of a youth group, miniball team, government party other
ideas. This criteria could be used in a number of ways eg: advertisement for a job,
Vocabulary extension for report writing about different leaders
Other areas this chart could be used - Camp Greenlake in the story Holes,
characters in reading books, social studies topics, selected parts of a DVD.
As busy educators we need to made decisions every minute of

the day let us now think where many of these charts would fit
into our everyday routines
Decision Making Matrix that new pair of boots that I would like to buy???
PMI Plus, Minus and Interesting Topic: The youth of today.
Extent Barometer to what extent is my very disruptive reading class annoying
me!!!!!!!
KWL What I know about buying those new boots ( I have to have them!) What I
want to know (are they on sale????) and what I have learnt (dont put any
unnecessary purchases on the credit card where other people can see it!!!!!!!! Oh
dear!!)
SWOT Myself as a mother of a three year old!!!
T Bar Richard in his youth playing soccer/Richard in his Mature years playing
soccer.
Tournament Prioritising What do I need to take on my ski holiday? Decisions are so
hard!
Y Chart Old Age: What it lookswww.schoolofeducators.com
like, sounds like, feels like!

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Thinking, thinking and more

Turn the order upside down for

Six Thinking Hats

White Hat facts, questions

Gardners Multiple Intelligences

Gardner first discussed his theory of Multiple Intelligences in

Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"):

Tony Ryans Thinkers Keys

Helps children to see that taking everything into consideration is

PMI is a simple way to analyse.

Eg: Read the novel HOLES

A simple and quick way to summarise information from a written

Australian Newspaper source

List ideas chn make a summary

As busy educators we need to made decisions every minute of

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