Strategies for Developing Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Help your students become 21st century thinkers! Developed for grades 3-5, this resource provides teachers with strategies to build every student's mastery of high-level thinking skills, promote active learning, and encourage students to analyze, evaluate, and create. Model lessons are provided as they integrate strategy methods including questioning, decision-making, creative thinking, problem solving, and idea generating.

Kotak Soalan Fizik

Kotak Soalan Kumpulan 3

Pelajar boleh meninggalkan nota, soalan, komen, kata pujian, dan pemikiran di dalam kotak komen yang dibina oleh pelajar sendiri. Ini juga merupakan satu strategi terbaik untuk melaksanakan di dalam kelas kerana ia akan menggalakkan pelajar yang bersifat malu dan pendiam untuk bertanya soalan dengan tanpa perasaan malu.

Kotak Soalan Kumpulan Satu

Kotak soalan Kumpulan 4 

Kotak Soalan Kumpulan 6

Kotak Soalan disimpan dan dipamerkan di dalam almari kelas di mana pelajar boleh melontarkan soalan pada bila-bila masa.

Kelas saya boleh menggunakan kotak soalan untuk berkomunikasi dengan saya dengan rasa tidak mahu namanya disiarkan. Saya mahu pelajar saya dapat bertanya soalan, berkongsi idea atau beritahu saya tentang situasi. Mudah-mudahan, ini akan membantu untuk mengurangkan perasaan malu di kalangan pelajar. Mereka boleh menulis segala pemikiran dan diletakkan di dalam kotak pemikiran dan tiada siapa yang akan tahu siapa yang bertanya.

What is a Group Work?

         

        What is a Group Work?

        Group work is working together to achieve a common goal. Group work gives you opportunity to discuss and share your ideas, learn from others and, as a team, solve a problem or complete a task. Every member of the group has a role and contributes to the success of the group.

Why work in groups?

A team working together can achieve more than the sum of its individuals. You can bounce ideas off each other, clarify your understandings and gain self-confidence.

How do we work in groups? 

          Group work is about working effectively as a team. However, there are some things you    should watch out for, such as the following:

•One person taking over.

•Leaving someone out

•Giving too much work to one person.

•Criticizing without offering your own suggestion. 

Rules for successful group work

•Work as a team – for all to succeed each person needs to contribute.

•Make sure everyone gets to share theirs ideas. If this is not happening, take turns.

•Divide the task into “bits” and give each person their own ‘bit’ - and deadline.

•Respect all ideas.

•Every so often, evaluate how you are going. Help others if you finish quickly. 

WHAT IS MIND MAPPING?

Mind Mapping is a popular brainstorming tool and learning technique of visually arranging ideas and their interconnections. It can be used to graphically arrange the linkages of some central concept or issue with other concepts or issues into memorable treelike diagrams. 

It allows you to create, capture, organize, and communicate readily understood and highly interactive visual representations of complex ideas, information, and data.

A mind map always starts from some problem or issue which is positioned in the center. Typically it contains words, short phrases and pictures, which are connected to the central issue by lines.

Most people are visually oriented. Using structure, words, color, images, and hyperlinks (and sounds) to bring concepts to life, Mind Mapping links a central concept or issue with related concepts or issues. 

Here's the teacher designed activity:

Using Mind Maps as a Teaching and Learning Tool to Promote Student Engagement

GROUP 8 Mind Maps by lim chuan yang

Mind Maps from my physics students. 

Physics Layered-Look Book

Why use Foldables in Physics lessons?

1.  Organize, display, and arrange information, making it easier for students to grasp physics  concepts, theories, facts, questions, research, and ideas.
2.  Replace teacher-generated writing or photocopied sheets with student-generated print.
3.  Incorporate the use of such skills as comparing and contrasting, recognizing cause and effect, and finding similarities and differences.
4. Can be used as alternative assessment tools by teachers to evaluate student progress or by students to evaluate their own progress.

Physics Teaching Techniques: Mini-Whiteboards

Using mini-whiteboards to transform classroom practice

There are three reasons I find them useful:.

1. Whole-class feedback:Mini-whiteboards, on which the whole class simultaneously writes down the answer to a question, are a quick way of gauging whether the class as a whole is getting your lesson. This method also satisfies the high-achievers who would normally stick their hands up.

 2.    Developing confidence. Quite a lot of students don’t like putting pen to paper. This is especially true in maths where there is usually a single right answer and, therefore, a high risk of ‘getting it wrong’. I’ve found students much more willing to make a start on mini boards because it’s easy to make corrections and wipe out mistakes. Once they’ve experimented, they can copy out the solution on paper.

3.   Checking individual work.  When students complete the same task on mini boards, they collaborate better by looking at what each other are writing and it’s easy for me to see too. They’re less afraid of someone pointing out a mistake because it’s quick to make corrections on the dry-erase surface.