Tony Ryan PD

Vanessa

Directions for students....

Start with the students name

Maximum 3 words. What do you want them to do?

Thank you, never please!

Life Long Learners

What are you doing to show your students that you are a life long learner?

Health and well-being benefits of ‘working out’ your brain.

You do not have enough ‘lifetime’ to learn enough to fill up your brain, you could spend 10 lifetimes consistently learning and still have brainpower to spare!

Kelly

Generate the highest levels of intellectual rigour and inquiry

Key Ideas

Discuss

Question

Philosophise

Zestful inquiries

Passions

Provocative introductory lessons

Exciting titles

Intellectually stimulating assessment task

Develop rich focus questions

Intellectual Rubber band Stretch thinking way beyond

Cristy

Rubrics

• Self-assessment tool

• Students need to create them together (own them)

• Working document – change/add to with the students

• Refer back to throughout the school year.

• Pictures or words

• Identifies steps for improvement (allows students to visually see what they have achieved and what they need to do to achieve)

• Can be used for almost anything (writing, handwriting, reading, spelling, maths, sports etc)

• Can be general or specific (writing vs argument writing)

What Does Good Argument Writing Look Like?

Visualising

• Allows imagination growth

• Self-talk too

Visualising

Visualising everyday helps us to have a GREAT day. We visualise every morning. We use the phrase....

‘I AM GOING TO HAVE AN AWESOME DAY TODAY!

1. Come quietly into the classroom.

2. Sit nicely at our desks.

3. Put our heads down and close our eyes.

4. For 60 seconds we visualise how we are going to have an awesome day.

Jadene

Main points for me from Tony’s seminar:

• What can you do to start the year in a positive light?

• Create thinkers early on in the piece and you will see the benefits as time goes on

• Build a positive attitude towards learning

• Use visuals for everything, statistics show that we retain more information from what we see more

than from what we are told

• Be organised!

• Use high thinking questions, reach for the stars, go beyond and then readjust. It is easier to readjust

than to set the bar low and then try to pull the children up

• Student passion, what are your children in to?

• You MUST get the children to THINK

Quick Changes

• Shut Up! – 5 words

• Visualise

• Self talk

• Share instead of ask

• Instead of only capturing 20% of your class by asking a question and

waiting for children to put their hands up try posing the question and

then give the children a minute to turn to a partner and discuss the

children can then report back

Tony Ryan’s Thinking Cards

Two categories

Critical/Organisational - Blue

Creative/Innovative – Orange

Use them to:

• Create thinkers. Teaching the children how to think for themselves

• Encourage the children to go beyond – Reach for the Stars

• Planning with a child centred focus – what do they want to know?

What questions do they have?

• Reading activities

• Reinforcing Inquiry Learning

• Solving issues

Classroom Mentors

• Responsible children are chosen to be mentors

• Children are trained to use the cards to resolve issues

• Use the cards to direct questioning

• Resolve issues by moving through the cards one at a time

• Purpose: is to encourage children to solve problems through thinking strategies

• Goal: as the children become familiar with the cards they will begin to use the strategies in a variety of ways eg; solve problems, question, research, challenge

Kaela

Thinking buddies

You need to teach your children how to think.

Step one: Physical buddy - children to create or use toys/ puppets.

Step two: Children to ask their buddy questions.

Step three: Children talk to their buddy in their heads.

Step four: Children to begin to 'think talk' to their buddy without touching the buddy.

Step five: Children to ask the question and listen to their own answer in their head.

Any questions?

Tony Ryan

You know, for this time of

the year, you are lookin’

sensational!!

You also need to teach your children how to LISTEN to their thoughts.