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PACES Domain V: Enabling Thinking
PACES is:Indicators Seven DomainsTeaching & Learning Components
The Seven DomainsI.Planning for Teaching and LearningII.Managing the Learning EnvironmentIII.Teacher/Learner RelationshipsIV.Enhancing and Enabling LearningV.Enabling ThinkingVI.Classroom-Based Assessment of LearningVII.Professional Responsibilities
Indicators44 Required for EvaluationTotal of 107
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Isaac DIsraeliWriter 1766-1848
V.A. Higher Order Cognitive SkillsLearners are actively engaged and/or involved in developing associations (V.A.1).Learners are actively engaged and/or involved in developing concepts (V.A.2).Learners are actively engaged and/or involved in developing principles, rules, and/or generalizations (V.A.3). continuedInvolvement in the development of thinking skills suggests more in depth cognitive activity than being at task.
V.A. Higher Order Cognitive Skills continuedLearners are actively engaged and/or involved and encouraged to generate and think about examples from their own experiences (V.A.4).Learners are actively engaged and/or involved in and encouraged to use mental imagery (V.A.5).Involvement in the development of thinking skills suggests more in depth cognitive activity than being at task.
V.A. 1Developing Associations
An association is a connection between ideas, sensations, memories and so on.An association is a fundamental building block for learningAssociations form networks, patterns, and arrangements of knowledge that can be used for future learning.BCA
IMAGINE!We process the world by comparing whatever we perceive to our previous experience. What would life be like without our ability to make these associations?
Keys to Meaningful Association FormingLink new associations to prior learning experiences.
Actively involve learners.
Concepts are general ideas or understandings derived from specific instances or classes of objects.
PlantFlowerRoseThe development of concepts involves linking items to categories, concept classes, by using attributes of members in the concept class.
V.A.3Developing Principles, Rules, and/or Generalizations
Principles, Rules, and Generalizations state relationships between two or more concepts.LawsFundamental truthsEssential elements in a processMethods of operationFunctional relationshipsE=MC2
V.A.4Generating and Thinking About Examples from Learner Experience
The teacher uses methods that actively engage and/or involve learners in ample opportunities to:KnowledgeGenerateStructureTransferTransformRestructure
Thinking skills are developed and learning is enhanced when the learner: provides examples from personal experience. generates new examples. attends to others personal examples.
V.A.5Using Mental Imagery
Imagination can:Generate and transform knowledge.But only if you ask the right questions.
Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute powerAnd clearest insight, amplitude of mind,And reason in her most exalted mood.William WordsworthPoet 1770-1850
PACES Domain V:Enabling ThinkingV. B. Questioning Strategies
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?Gertrude SteinWriter 1874-1946Last words.
Questioning StrategiesIndicatorsA variety of questions that enable thinking are asked and/or solicited (V.B.1)
Wait time is used as appropriate to enhance the development of thinking skills (V.B.2)
V.B.1A variety of questions that enable thinking are asked and/or solicited.
Keys to Enabling Thinking Through Variety of Questions Questions may be asked by the teacher or by learners. Questioning occurs throughout a lesson. Question are asked for a variety of purposes.
Compare Contrast Justify Speculate Predict Synthesize and...When learners are asked to:Stimulate higher order thinking skills Generated Structured Restructured Transferred Transformed and...Knowledge is:Variety of Purpose
V.B.2Wait time is used as appropriate to enhance the development of thinking skills.?
Wait time is the duration of the pause separating speakers.1Teacher - Learner2Learner - Teacher3Learner - Learner4Teacher - Teacher
Preferable Wait Time Format1.Pose a question to the group.2.Allow learners 3 to 5 seconds to ponder answers to the question.3.Ask individual learners to then respond.
PACES Domain V:Enabling ThinkingV.C. Problem Solving and Creative Thinking
I must Create a System, or be enslavd by another MansWilliam Blake Writer & Artist 1757-1827
Indicators - Learners are Actively Engaged and/or Involved in:Critical analysis and/or problem solving (V.C.1)
Elaborating, extending, or discussing their own or other learner responses (V.C.2)
Creative thinking (V.C. 3) continued
Indicators - Learners are Actively Engaged and/or Involved in:Extending learning to different contexts (V.C.4)
Thinking about their roles and responsibilities as thinkers and learners. (V.C.5)
V.C.1: Critical Analysis and/or Problem Solving
Strategies that encourage critical analysis and/or problem solving include:Making predictionsLinking cause & effectDiscussing means & ends relationshipsConsensus buildingIdentifying pros & cons
More Strategies:Listing strengths & weaknessesDistinguishing facts from opinions and relevant from irrelevant informationDetermining credibility of sourcesIdentifying assumptions & limitationsIdentifying logical fallacies & ambiguities
V.C.2Elaborating and Extending Responses
Learners may elaborate upon and extend other learner knowledge, the teachers or their own by:TransferringMatchingRestructuring
V.C.3: Creative Thinking
Creative Thinking Involves:FluencyFlexibilityOriginalityElaboration
V.C.4: Extending Learning to Different Contexts
Past experiencesNew learning opportunitiesOther topicsImaginary settings&Personal reflectionAre all contexts to which new learning may be applied.
V.C.5: Learners Are Encouraged to Think About Their Roles and Responsibilities as Thinkers and LearnersLearners understand: they are co-participants in the learn