Get Them Thinking
Get Them Thinking

Get Them Thinking

First we had ‘Proving Pupil Progress’ and now I am back tracking to a post I just didn’t get finished, entitled ‘Get Them Thinking.’ Perhaps more relevant to my English and PSRE classes, some of these ideas are applicable to other subject areas.

The Reverse

Name x ‘things’ or ‘actions’ or ‘thoughts’ x would never do? Very open, potentially exploitable, students must apply knowledge of the character or situation appropriately.

The What If?

List a series of consequences, to what if, statements. What if Romeo had not murdered

The Combination

Combine letters and numbers to create a secret code? Share the code with others, can be cracked?

The Variations

We understand how a character acts in a scene, story, film. Ask students ‘what else could the author have done?’

The Prediction

at a given point in the storyline, asked the students to record the prediction. At a later point come back to see how accurate these predictions were.

The Commonality

write down X points that two characters have in common.

The Answer is?

The answer is ‘respect.’ List five possible questions.

The Intervention

Invent a new piece of equipment that would resolve the situation.

The Display

On any given topic asked the students to design and created a display.

Worth a crack?

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