- Having opportunities to enrich their experiences
- Having a desire to learn independently and with others
- Taking responsibility for and ownership of their own learning
- Learning in a variety of ways and styles
- Learning in a highly structured and purposeful environment
- Experiencing the celebration of their learning, thinking and achievement
- To use group roles to complete collaborative activities in class, which change as children progress through the different key stages.
- Pupils will work in mixed skilled groups to enable them to use TSPC most effectively in different lessons.
- Use of ‘How will I best think and learn today board
- Thinking time board
- Washing line of TSPC words
- Stuck board
- Use of Think-pair-share
- Use of sevens strategies
- Setting open-ended challenges
- Making thinking important
- Effective Questioning
- Making thinking explicit
- Enabling collaborative learning
- Promoting independent learning
- Making connections