Jill Nottingham's background is in teaching, leadership and consultancy. She has been a teacher and leader in kindergartens and schools in some of the more socially deprived areas of North East England. During that time, she developed many approaches to teaching children how to learn that are still being used in schools and taught in universities today. Jill has also trained with Edward de Bono at the University of Malta, and has studied for a Masters degree in Education with the University of Newcastle. Jill now leads Challenging Learning's pre-school and primary school consultancy. She has written many of the Challenging Learning teaching materials, has edited the others, and is currently writing 3 books for schools and 2 books for pre-schools. In amongst this she finds time to be the mother of 3 gorgeous children!
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
The Language of Learning
Part I: Setting the Scene
Chapter 1: Preparing to Use the Lesson Ideas
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The Learning Challenge
1.2 Learning Intentions
1.3 High-Quality Dialogue
1.4 Exploratory Talk
1.5 Underpinning Values
Chapter 2: The Lesson Activities
2.0 Overview
2.1 Mystery
2.2 Ranking
2.3 Sorting and Classifying with Venn Diagrams
2.4 Opinion Lines
2.5 Opinion Corners
2.6 Fortune Lines
2.7 Living Graphs
2.8 Concept Lines
2.9 Odd One Out
2.10 Concept Targets
2.11 Collective Memory
2.12 Concept Corners
2.13 Thought Maps
2.14 Concept Graphs
Part II: The Lesson Ideas
Lesson 1: A visit to Grandma's
Lesson 2: Why Explore?
Lesson 3: Who Was Responsible for Sam Ending Up in the Hospital?
Lesson 4: Should You Say Sorry?
Lesson 5: Does Jake Need a Shared Language at School?
Lesson 6: Good Thinking
Lesson 7: Got the Time?
Lesson 8: If Ricudo Lost His Home, Would This Be the Worst Thing That Is
Happening in the Amazon Rainforest?
Lesson 9: What is Garbage?
Lesson 10: Should Ms. Smith Raise Money to Plant Trees Within the School
Grounds?
Lesson 11: Should Theon Post That?
Lesson 12: Was Willy Wonka fair?
Lesson 13: What Is Color?
Lesson 14: What Is Cost?
Lesson 15: What Is the Best Sport?
Lesson 16: What Is Treasure?
Lesson 17: Who Is the Greatest?
Lesson 18: Is It Better to Work as a Team?
Lesson 19: Does Fame Make You More Important?
Lesson 20: Was Harry Potter the Hero of Hogwarts?
References
Index of Concepts
References
Photocopiable masters
Index
