The document discusses various thinking techniques that can be used in early learning environments to promote thinking. It describes activities like chalk talks, think pair share, circle of viewpoints, tug of war, continuum decisions, then now later, and questioning techniques. The overall message is that thinking is social and these activities help connect ideas, consider different perspectives, make decisions, manage conflicts, and develop language and questioning skills in a way that gives students ownership of their learning.

1. Cultures of Thinking
In An Early Learning
Environment

3. Thinking Learning
 What does thinking look like?
 And why do we care?

4. Thinking is like …
Claim and Support

7. Connections
 Chalk Talks
 How does this make you feel?
 What does this make you think of?

8. CEC

9. Think Pair Share
 COMBINING BRAINS AND IDEAS
 Shared art activity
 Think of place
 Other person think of a thing
 What would be a story that would connect those two
things?

10. Circle of Viewpoints
 Role play – who are you today? Or Step Inside
 “What do I care about?”

12. Tug of War
 Visualising sides of arguments

14. What’s the issue?
Why do I
agree?
Why do I
disagree?

15. Continuum Decisions
 Children make a stand on something that isn’t
valuative.
 “my room is organised”
 “I like vegetables”
 “I help around my home”

16. Then, Now, Later
 Conflict management!

17. Zoom In

20. Questioning and Language
“children grow into the intellectual life around
them” (p.88). That intellectual life is fundamentally social,
and language has a special place in it. Because the
intellectual life is social, it is also relational and emotional.

21.  And the power of Silence
The power/ownership/agency
is with the learner!

22. Question Starters
 What makes you say that?
How would it be different if...?
What are the reasons...?
Suppose that...?
What if...?
What if we knew...?
What is the purpose of...?
What would change if...?
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