A Taste of PLTs

A Recipe for Success

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Background
• Year 7 CORE (now with added Year 8)
• Deep Learning Days
• New KS3 curriculum

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 The PLTs

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 The PLTs

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Strategies for developing INDEPENDENT
ENQUIRERS
• Question Frame

Other strategies:
• Thinking Hats
• Resource Stations

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Traits of Independent Enquirers

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I don’t like thinking
●
I prefer to be told what to do
●
I don’t know how to do it

Developing

Risk
Ownership
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
 Question Frame
• An essential tool in HOW to do things.
• Best if developed by the students themselves.
• Requires set up of an “impossible” task

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Your task
• Write as a group an omelette recipe.

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Debrief:
• To succeed in this task your omelette should
be an 8 person, mushroom omelette made
with skimmed milk, as little oil and salt as
possible, and include the herb parsley.

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Thinking…
• What questions should you ask about the
task?

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
07CO2 came up with
this! Task Checklist
Teacher I work it It’s in the
Tells me out instructions
How long does it take?
Do I do it alone?
Where can I find the information?
What is difficult?
What do I like doing?
Where shall I start?
What is the most important task?
What do I need to have to complete the task?
How does this fit into the lesson?
How am I going to do the task?
Do I understand the instructions for the task?
Where can I get help from?
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
 Traits of Independent Enquirers

●
I don’t like thinking
●
I prefer to be told what to do
●
I don’t know how to do it

Developing

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Traits of Collaborative Learners

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I have a fixed idea of my role in a group. If I don’t get my way, I choose to
work alone.
●
When my groups disagrees I don’t know what to do.
●
I am often off task, disrupting group learning.

Developing

Empathy
Adaptability
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
 Strategies for developing COLLABORATIVE
LEARNING
• Think, pair, share
• Expert teams

Other strategies:
• Roles in a team (Chairman, Secretary,
Timekeeper, Red-Herring spotter)
• Positive and Negative behaviour cards

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 On your own

• Please make a list of as many foods as you can

think of.

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THINK
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 With a partner

• Compare your lists.

• Can you add to each others’ ideas?
• Does this make you think of any new ideas to
add?

PAIR
 Traits of Collaborative Learners

●
I have a fixed idea of my role in a group. If I don’t get my way, I choose to
work alone.
●
When my groups disagrees I don’t know what to do.
●
I am often off task, disrupting group learning.

Developing

Empathy
Adaptability
 In a group of 4

• Combine your ideas together

• Now categorise the foods that you have listed.
Decide first on your categories.

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SHARE
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 Expert teams
• Your challenge is to create a menu that is HEALTHY and
BALANCED
• It must contain
– A starter
– A main course
– A pudding
– A snack for later

• You are each going to become an ‘expert’ in a particular

course first, before COLLABORATING on your menu back in
your team.
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
 Becoming experts
• Number your team members 1, 2, 3, & 4
• You are going to form a new group with all the
people who share your number

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Becoming experts

• In your groups, discuss your ideas for one

course of a menu Your whole menu needs to
– Team 1: starters be healthy and balanced
– Team 2: main courses so have several
– Team 3: puddings! suggestions ready for your
– Team 4: snacks team when you return
• Be ready to feed back once you are an expert

Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis

Foxford School 2010
 Expert teams
• Your challenge is to
create a menu that is
HEALTHY and
BALANCED
• It must contain
– A starter
– A main course
– A pudding
– A snack for later
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010
 Traits of Collaborative Learners

●
I have a fixed idea of my role in a group. If I don’t get my way, I choose to
work alone.
●
When my groups disagrees I don’t know what to do.
●
I am often off task, disrupting group learning.

Developing

Empathy
Adaptability
Kathy Whitehouse & James Padvis
Foxford School 2010