This unit explores how you might build the habit of Reasoning in your students.
Sections 1 – 4 look at;
- Reasoning and how it develops. The Reasoning Chart. Unpick the meaning of Reasoning, how it develops over time and use the Reasoning chart to plot where your students are now.
- Taking Reasoning into classroom culture. Reasoning activities. Offers numerous suggestions to develop a Reasoning friendly culture and build students’ Reasoning skills.
- Blending Reasoning with content. Example dual-focused lesson. Suggests a series of questions and steps you might use to ensure the development of Reasoning claims its place in the curriculum and is designed into lesson/activities to aid understanding.
- Team reflection and planning. Share the impact of your experiments with colleagues and plan what you need to do next.
The resource materials in the Learning Diary: Reasoning help you to distil important messages, home in on the key bits of information and design learning experiments specifically for you.
Download as a pdfYou will probably need to spend 50-75 mins on sections 1-3. Section 1 may take about 15 minutes to get your head round. Section 2 should take you about 20 minutes. Section 3 needs at least a 40 minutes of hard thinking. Section 4 is a linked Professional Learning Team session which will have been organised to take place sometime after this on-line session, and should take about 75 minutes.
Use the Green Navigation Bar below to find your way around the different sections of the module.
You are now in ‘Putting Reasoning into Learning’



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