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Indicator
I.B.3
Activities are planned that enable the development of thinking abilities
among learners.
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Definition(s)
and/or Explanation(s)
Planned activities should:
- include both teacher-directed and
teacher-assisted activities
- provide learners with multiple
opportunities to engage in activities that reflect lesson objectives
- include a variety of teaching methods
and learning tasks such as: lecture/discussion, review, drill, skill
application, small group discussion, independent learning,
cooperative learning, problem-solving, discovery, etc.
- reflect a logical order of teaching
and learning
Thinking skills include:
- generating, structuring,
restructuring, transferring, and transforming knowledge.
- matching, transferring, and analyzing
information
Please note:
Learning is enhanced when the teacher deliberately plans teaching and
learning activities that involve learners in the development of thinking
skills.
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Classroom Examples
Elementary
In a fifth-grade geometry unit, the PLAN
includes activities designed to extend and apply previous learning to
new contexts. One activity is planned in which the learners are
assembled into small groups and directed to find a number of square and
rectangular items in the classroom, and to calculate the area of each
item. The learners, synthesizing knowledge gathered from previous
lessons, select the standard units appropriate for each item to be
measured.
Secondary
In an English unit on figurative language in literature , the PLAN
includes the following activities designed to increase learners'
knowledge of the use of metaphor:
- The teacher directs a discussion of
the metaphor in literature.
- Working in small groups, learners
identify and discuss the meaning of metaphors in two short stories.
- The class, as a whole group, engages
in discussion.
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