Thinking Tool Index - English LoiLo Note School Manual

Thinking Tool Index

What are Thinking Tools?

Thinking Tools are tools designed to facilitate the process of thinking and creating your own ideas. They visually represent various patterns of thinking such as "comparing," "classifying," and "relating." By understanding the features of each tool and combining them with activities, you can smoothly generate your own thoughts.

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The value of Thinking Tools

Using Thinking Tools allows you to express your thoughts visually. This makes it easier to communicate your thinking and explain your thinking to others. Additionally, Thinking Tools help to show different perspectives, fostering effective dialogue and deepening understanding.

Why Thinking Tools are important to use for CCSS and PISA

Thinking Tools are essential for meeting the requirements set by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These standards emphasize the need for students to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills across subjects such as English Language Arts and Mathematics. Thinking Tools assist in visualizing complex ideas, structuring arguments, and analyzing textual or numerical data. By enabling students to clearly map out their thoughts and solutions, these tools facilitate deeper understanding and more effective communication of ideas. Furthermore, Thinking Tools promote collaboration among students, enhancing their ability to work together to solve problems and engage in meaningful discussions, aligning perfectly with the collaborative skills highlighted by the CCSS.

Scenarios where Thinking Tools should be utilized for developing the skills required by CCSS

/enloilots/CCSS requires Thinking Tools to develop critical thinking skills.

Scenarios where Thinking Tools should be utilized for developing the skills required by OECD PISA.

/enloilots/OECD PISA requires Thinking Tools to develop critical thinking skills.

How to incorporate Thinking Tools into classroom lessons

Improve lesson structure

1. It is necessary to structure lessons in various subjects to include tasks that require creative and critical thinking.

2. Thinking Tools exist to create new ideas through an individual's unique knowledge base. To utilize knowledge, one must visualize their own ideas and the ideas of others, and combine these ideas to form new understanding.

- Previous classes: Organize key takeaways and summarize.

- Future classes: Organize key points and include one's own assertions.

Classroom scenarios for utilizing Thinking Tools

A classroom scenario where one explains something they know to someone else.

A classroom scenario where one clearly communicates how to solve a problem.

A classroom scenario where one expresses their thoughts about what they have learned.

A classroom scenario where one presents their own opinion on a solution to a problem and explains it to someone else.

How to use Thinking Tools

The Overview workflow for using Thinking Tools

1. Create perspective structure using green Cards.

2. Place blue Cards on the tool to express thinking.

3. Switch Thinking Tools if necessary to generate new ideas.