Conducting Your Own Case Study
Cascading the approach to your colleagues
Monitoring & evaluation through 'Interactive Assessment'
It is worth reflecting at this point that the Thinking Frame Approach works to improve thinking skills and pupil explanations in a wider range of contexts than just Science.
So we would recommend that you start in Science and then could consider cascading the use of the Thinking Frames Approach across the curriculum in your school.
The Thinking Frames Approach has worked so well in Science that I am now using it in other areas:
ICT - Children are developing their own PowerPoint versions of the Thinking Frame to explain "How Lulworth Cove formed?"
History - I set the Thinking Frame question "How was Corfe Castle destroyed and the royalists defeated?"
English - I have been using Thinking Frames to support all sorts of explanation text writing
Maths - To support interpretation of data "Why is my winter shadow graph different from my summer shadow graph?"Nicola Carr - Dogmersfield Primary School
Malcolm Price and Mark Townsend discuss how they have cascaded the Thinking Frames Approach to other primary teachers.
Having trialled the various resources and approaches available on this site, we hope that you will have been able to build up a portfolio of evidence of how this approach can support your pupils and improve standards.
How you cascade to other teachers will depend upon your school and relationships with your peers. We have found that whole staff meetings and INSET can be valuable, but they are not enough upon their own to embed the Thinking Frames approach. The video shares some practical ideas that have been used at Harrison Primary School.