Putting Reasoning into Learning v6s

This unit explores how you might build the habit of Reasoning in your students.

Sections 1 – 4 look at;

1. 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.
2. Taking Reasoning into classroom culture. Activities for Reasoning. Offers numerous suggestions to develop a Reasoning friendly culture and build students’ Reasoning skills.
3. Blending Reasoning with content. Dual Focused Lesson ideas. 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.
4. 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.