The Thinking Frames Approach
KS2-KS3

Conducting Your Own Case Study

Conducting Your Own Case Study

We have found that the best way to cascade the approach across a schools is for one of the teachers to conduct their own trials first. Once you have tried the Thinking Frames Approach for yourself and seen that it works in your school, we hope that you will want to share it with other teachers.

When you introduce the Thinking Frames Approach to your staff, it is a very powerful to have evidence of your pupils' work and are able to compare this to their individual prior attainment data (in much the same way that Pauline Rees and Beth Bramall have done in the Aims & Resources section of this website).

However introducing the approach and sharing the Kitchen Sink Science activities and other resources from this site with other teachers isn't enough. You will need to have a strategy for supporting these other teachers and for monitoring and evaluation. In this section we share with you the resources that we have developed to enable teachers to build a portfolio of evidence and our monitoring and evaluation tool which we have termed "Interactive Assessment".

Professional Development

• Building your own portfolio of evidence
• Interactive Assessment to gather evidence

Sharing your findings

• Cascading the approach across your school
• Sharing your ideas with other teachers

Download a summary of this section as a PowerPoint (zip file, 380kb).