This year at UHPS we have started thinking about our learning and thinking using using SOLO Taxonomy.
SOLO stands for:
Structure
O bserved
L earning
O utcomes
We have looked at different levels of thinking outcomes that we move through as we learn to learn. Each level represents a greater level or depth of thinking and understanding in the given topic.
If we don't know anything about the topic we say that our thinking outcome is: PRESTRUCTURAL
If we know one relevant thing about the topic we say that our thinking outcome is: UNISTRUCTURAL
If we know more than one thing about the topic we say that out thinking outcome is: MULTISTRUCTURAL
If we know many things about the topic and can explain relationships between the items we say that our thinking outcome is: RELATIONAL
If we know many things about the topic and can make connections within the subject and also beyond it, making predictions or generalisations our thinking outcome is: EXTENDED ABSTRACT.
Watch this space to find out how we "learn to learn" by investigating our thinking using SOLO taxonomy.
SOLO DIARY:
FRIDAY 17th June
Today Mrs Millett gave us a brainstorming sheet and asked us to write down in pencil everything we knew about the story, "Goldilocks and the three bears." We listed around our brainstorm lots of facts including "goldilocks ate the porridge", "there were three bears: mother, father, baby." At this stage of the task we all achieved a Multistructural thinking outcome as we could list a lot of facts about the story.
Next Mrs Millett gave us a question to think about. She asked us: What are some of the aspects about the ways the bears live that tell us that this is not a real life situation? We answered this question using a blue pen. Some of our ideas included, "The bears in the story could talk". At this stage in the task we achieved a Relational thinking outcome as we were having to relate the story to real life.
Each time we wrote our thinking down we talked about how we had extended our thinking and added depth to our ideas.
Lastly, Mrs Millett asked us a really tricky question: Why do fairy tales allow animals to act like humans? We had to add our new ideas to the brainstorm using a green pen. We came up with some clever ideas like, "fairy tales allow animals to be like humans because we can relate to them better". Some of our ideas were beginning to be Extended Abstract thinking outcomes!!!
Until next time... Keep thinking!!
