Internet Resources

Apple: Learning Interchange
Effective questioning techniques are a part of the art of teaching. Appropriately-formed questions can help students dig within themselves for more thought and reflection. Students can make discoveries and be challenged to think more critically.

Accomplished teachers use many different forms of questions and provide a structure that brings out the best in students. They give students time to formulate answers and strive for active learning. http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000328/Questioning_Techniques.html*

Thinking Education: The home page of Michael Pohl.
Thinking Education is a private professional organisation set up to meet the training and development needs of schools and other educational institutions.
http://www.thinkingeducation.com.au/*

Concept to Classroom
Welcome to Tapping into Multiple Intelligences. Hopefully, you'll tap into a few of your own intelligences to learn about this important theory.
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index.html*

Tony Ryan’s Thinkers Keys.
A brief explanation of the Thinkers Keys based on Tony Ryan's book Thinkers Keys for Kids (©1990) http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Think%20Keys/keys.htm*

Sovereign Hill
Sovereign Hill was established at Ballarat in 1970 and is an internationally renowned tourist attraction that includes a Gold Museum, on-site accommodation, an evening sound and light show, ‘Blood on the Southern Cross’ and Narmbool, a rural property that provides education programs.
http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/*

Articles/Books for Professional reading
Pohl, M (2000) Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn. Cheltenham, Vic: Hawker Brownlow Education.

Wilks, S (2005). Designing a Thinking Curriculum. ACER Press.

McGrath, H & Noble, T. (2005) Eight Ways At Once. Pearson Education.



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