Thinking Through PSHE helps secondary teachers to develop students’ critical thinking skills in personal and social issues, aiding their personal and social development. It aids independent learning and provides young adults with transferable life skills to help them live healthy, confident lives.
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Thinking Through strategies encourage both teachers and students alike to see themselves as learners who:
Born out of the authors’ passionate belief that students’ personal and social development goes hand-in-hand with their ability to learn and to achieve in all subject areas, this exciting resource is about helping students to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding that they will need to live healthy, confident, independent lives.
PSHE, Citizenship and CEG are three areas that deserve their fair share of available time in a crowded content-based syllabus, not only because their learning outcomes are essential in preparing young people to take on the roles and responsibilities of adult life, but also because they can make a powerful contribution to raising achievement by involving and motivating students in their learning.
In this book you will find examples of how (what are now recognised to be generic) thinking skills strategies can be used to teach PSHE, Citizenship and CEG. Due to the vastness of these three areas the authors have not attempted to be comprehensive in the coverage of topics. Rather, they have sought to present a broad range of ideas and to show how the examples can be adapted for different contexts, and for different ages and abilities.
There are contributions from long-serving teachers as well as from teachers relatively new to the profession. This demonstrates the versatility of thinking skills strategies and is testament to the fact that they enhance the professional development of all teachers, regardless of their experience.
What do we mean by Thinking Skills?
Characteristics of Thinking Skills
The National Curriculum requirements
What are the connections between PSHE, Citizenship and CEG?
What is distinctive about a Thinking Through, learner-centred approach to the delivery of PSHE, Citizenship and CEG and what are its benefits?
The exemplars
A model for understanding teaching thinking
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Human rights (Citizenship, Year 9)
Exemplar 2 Refugees (Citizenship, Year 10)
Exemplar 3 Workplace (CEG, Year 10)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Drugs (PSHE, Year 9)
Exemplar 2 Careers (CEG, Year 9)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Careers: Equal pay (CEG/Citizenship, Year 10)
Exemplar 2 Careers: Decision-making (CEG, Year 9)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Sex and relationship education (PSHE, Year 9)
Exemplar 2 Political literacy (Citizenship, Year 9)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Drugs (PSHE, Year 7)
Exemplar 2 Adolescence (PSHE, Year 8)
Exemplar 3 Crime and deviance (Citizenship, Year 11)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Changing employment trends (CEG, Year 10)
Exemplar 2 Labour market (CEG Year 11)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Human rights (Citizenship, Year 8)
Exemplar 2 The family (PSHE, Year 10)
Rationale
Exemplar 1 Environment (Citizenship, Year 11)
Exemplar 2 Jobs (CEG, Year 11)
The role of exploratory talk
Exemplar Establishing ground rules for engagement
The national picture – the changing architecture of learning
Using professional development in Thinking Skills to reshape the PSHE, Citizenship and CEG curriculum
Collaborative enquiry – developing the use of teaching thinking strategies in Year 9 PSHE – a case study
Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 176 Pages, Published 2007
