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Research Results:

Visible thinking
Research based on the following:"What Visible Thinking strategies are most effective at deepening student learning across the curriculum
and what ones are most transferable across learning areas?"

Visible Thinking Blog
A blog created by Howie Jakeway for the Community of Practice

Higher order thinking
Research based on the following: "How can questioning be used to develop higher order thinking when delivering content rich senior school classes?"

Resources coming soon.

Positive Education & Signature strengths
The group investigated the following :"How do positive education practices (ie signature strengths, gratitude practices, mindfulness) affect student wellbeing?"

Differentiation
Research based on Differentiation

Finding Authenticity in the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Learning Model
Research based on the following question: ”How can we use the choose your own adventure model to create authentic learning experiences?”"

Creativity in the classroom
Research based on the following : ""How do we facilitate creative thinking in our students?""

Using formative assessment feedback to improve final submissions
Research based on the following :
"1. What they are learning and how they are learning?

2. What their strengths and challenges are?

3. How they can improve?

4. How well they are working towards their short term, medium and long-term goals?"

Team teaching
We were researching various team teaching models in different contexts (see above models). This was particularly to engage with cross-curricular content (GAR) in order to help develop deeper subject understanding and establish cross-curricular links

Student self motivation
Research based on the following question :"What are the factors that drive students to be self-motivated in an educational context?"

Flipped learning
Research based on the following: "How does flipped learning produce
the outcomes of independent working and group work?"