Congratulations to you all for a wonderful start to this project. The evaluations of the summit were very positive. Your class blogs are a great start – all so interesting.

The researchers from Deakin – Filocha, Wendy, Peter and myself have enjoyed meeting with some of you and hearing how your work is progressing. We are keen to hear about your experiences – you may like to respond here on the blog and share with the other teachers in this project. Some quetsions you could reflect on include:

1. How is your work progressing?, Any stories of success or frustration? What response have you had from students?

2. There are five aspects of the project that we are investigating:

Higher-order thinking,

Metacognitive awareness (learning about learning)

Teamwork/ collaboration,

Affect towards school / learning

Ownership of learning.

Have your interventions had an impact in any of these areas?

Tom has been highlighting some of the thinking routines described on the visible thinking website – e.g. see-think-wonder, claim-support-question, stop-look-listen, There are a variety and you may be doing all this without using the label that the visible thinking website uses. I would live to hear of any examples from your students.

Gail