This document discusses strategies for developing personal, learning, and thinking skills (PLTS) in students to prepare them for GCSE speaking and writing controlled assessments. It explores qualities like independence, understanding unfamiliar language, discussing opinions, and giving full accounts. It examines taxonomies like Bloom's and PRICE to identify thinking skill types. Suggested activities aim to develop skills through embedding PLTS in lessons, using ICT tools, and focusing on qualities like resilience, resourcefulness, reflectiveness, and reciprocity.

1. Powerpoint Templates Using Personal, Learning & Thinking Skills To prepare for the New GCSE Speaking & Writing Controlled Assessments Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham Twitter: @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

3. What sort of qualities, skills & attitudes does a New GCSE student need to have in order to be successful in the speaking and the writing Controlled Assessment?

7. Bloom’s Taxonomy Give opinions, assess/ criteria Express rules, summarise, create Identify patterns and rules Predict, infer Explain, describe, illustrate Information recall: identify, list

9. PLTS in the Secondary National Curriculum independent e nquirer c reative thinker r eflective learner e ffective participator t eam worker s elf manager

11. PRICE Taxonomy 1. Which is which? 2. Can you think of a language activity to illustrate each strand?

14. Concept mapping Fact or opinion? Fortune lines Kim’s game Opinion lines corners Sorting and classification What are they? Which PLTS areas can they cover? How do they assist in the preparation of the speaking and writing Controlled Assessment?

15. Concept mapping Fact or opinion? Fortune lines Kim’s game Opinion lines corners Sorting and classification Empathy-makes it easier to remember Reading for details/ between the lines Memorisation Highlights logical links Kinaesthetic activity to represent different opinions Helps to remember different opinions and how to justify them Practical way to introduce higher level opinion vocabulary Memory Dictionary skills Exploring the links between Different items of vocabulary Creative thinker Self Manager Independent Enquirer Reflective learner Self Manager Creative thinker

16. Embedding PLTS the BLP Way Building Learning Power, Guy Claxton “ The 6 clusters of qualities are more than Skills that can be trained... The point is to cultivate these qualities into becoming dispositions, or habits of mind... Cultivation of the PLTS should run through the curriculum, life and ethos of the school, like lettering through a stick of rock”

18. SOLO Taxonomy Stands for S tructures of O bserved L earning O utcomes Developed by Biggs and Collis in 1982 Describes levels of increasing complexity in a student’s understanding of a subject With the highest level being the extended abstract level , when students can make connections not only within the given area but also beyond it. Students will also be able to generalise and transfer the principles and ideas to another area. Are we allowing our students to make these connections? http://hooked-on-thinking.com/

22. Promoting PLTS: Mats

23. Promoting PLTS: Using cross-curricular Thinking Skills tools

24. Promoting PLTS: Using cross-curricular Thinking Skills tools

25. Promoting PLTS: Display

26. Strategies for Embedding PLTS: Display/ Overlaps

31. Points forts et Points faibles L’alcool : C’est relaxant mais c’est cher Le jeu Le tabac La drogue Plus … que (more … than) Moins … que (less … than) Aussi … que (as… as) L’alcool : C’est plus relaxant que le jeu mais c’est aussi cher que le tabac.

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33. Pourquoi pas?  1. Parce que ça sent mauvais 2. Parce que c’est dégoûtant 3. Parce que ça donne le cancer 4. Parce que ça cause des crises cardiaques 5. Parce que c’est facile de devenir dépendant 6. Parce que c’est trop cher 7. Parce que c’est du gaspillage 8. Parce que c’est difficile d’arrêter 9. Parce que c’est illégal 10.Parce que c’est dangereux 11.Parce que c’est mauvais pour le foie 12.Parce que ça fait grossir/ ça coupe l’appétit 13.Parce ce que c’est mauvais pour la santé

34. L’alcool Le tabac Les drogues L’alcool, le tabac ou les drogues?

36. Independent Enquirer Activities Mysteries: IWB, audio recording

39. Independent Enquirer Activities Intercultural understanding-reflecting on identity and finding out about France http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LXaSFgVxGs Find songs with repetitive structures And get students to also be more Creative with the language... Je viens de là où...

41. Creative Thinkers Activities Stromae-Alors on danse... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKrVB5f2W0 Structure suggested for students’ own poem/ song (complete) examples of student’s responses Qui dit amour dit … haine/ famille Qui dit parents dit… bagarres/problèmes Qui dit enfants dit … futur/larmes Qui dit vacances dit … rire/ désastre Qui dit études dit … travail/ennui Oui dit travail dit … argent/ennui Qui dit copains dit ... amusement/bavarder

42. Creative Thinkers Activities Poems: calligrams (word mosaic) Image Chef: http://www.imagechef.com How would you use these symbols? What other symbols might you find useful? Tagsxedo (creative word clouds) http://www.tagxedo.com/

43. Creative Thinkers Activities Making links: Learners are asked to make a concept map to remember the structure of their writing/ speaking preparation. They also need to consider the range of the language they have used. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4207753/le_stage

44. Reflective Learners Activities Fact or opinion “ On mange mieux en France qu’en Angleterre” Discute et range les phrases selon leurs catégories 2 stars and 1 wish Direct Post-it notes Wallwisher http://www.wallwisher.com

45. Reflective Learners Activities http://linoit.com/users/stowmarketmfl/canvases/GCSE%20Controlled%20Assessment%20Tips Thanks to Jen Turner

46. Reflective Learners Activities 2 stars and a wish (direct/ post-it notes/ wallwisher) http://www.wallwisher.com http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/wjn8yXcz14

47. Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/home

51. Action! Look at the qualities you want to develop in your students and identify 3 points for action 1 2 3

53. Powerpoint Templates Using Personal, Learning & Thinking Skills To prepare for the New GCSE Speaking & Writing Controlled Assessments Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham Twitter: @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com