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Tabas Concept
Development
Description
(Students group, label, regroup
and synthesize)
questions
-Higher level thinking
1. Identify/Listing
-Inquiry
-Students manipulate
2. Grouping
categories
3. Categorizing
How would you name/label groups?
4. Identify relationships
5. Explore relationships
6. Make inferences
skills+facts=abstract
generalizations through
questioning strategies
Visual Thinking
Strategies (VTS)
Benefits
Limitations
-Needs background knowledge
-Teachers questioning ability
-Students need some
background knowledge
-open-ended
-Students have higher
levels of thinking using a
small quantity of quality
information -Students
look for patterns and form
categories and develop big
idea.
-thinking
-teaches thinking skills
-Safe environment to
Teacher restates/paraphrases
normally talk
their ideas
questions.
perspectives.
Questioning
-Student-centered,
-Quality of questions
inquiry
-Community of learners
Blooms Taxonomy
-Questioning, thinking,
understanding
-Students can
demonstrate
understanding at various
levels
-Implemented in all
subject areas
Service Learning
1. Preparations
experiences
-fosters effective
-Resources
teamwork and
2. Action
Investigate, research, organize, design a
collaboration skills
plan
-increases self-esteem
3. Evaluation
helping others
of service
4. Celebration
Award ceremony, newspaper, local media,
etc.
Simulation
-Interactive
experiences
-Collaborative context
-Resources
problem solving
lesson/materials
-Multiple chances to
practice
-Critical thinking skills
-Engaging and motivating
-Students
-Integrate several
Bruner
Problem Based
Learning
subjects
-Learner pulls from past
knowledge to discover
-Cognitive overload
-Encourages active
to enhance knowledge
engagement
-Promotes motivation
independence,
responsibility
-Students experience high
learning.
-Time consuming
level thinking
-Self-directing themselves
during learning
knowledge
solve a problem.
-Highly engaging
-Work collaboratively
-Many solutions to a
problem
-Practice listening to
Socratic Seminar
individuals
to stimulate critical
thinking
talking?
class discussion
Examples:
-Inner/Outer Circle
not answers
listening.
thinking
Kohlbergs Moral
Dilemmas
texts)
an expert at.
-Tell people stories
dilemmas
Pre-conventional Morality
hypothetical.
obedience
grows.
2. Exchange of favors
-Student practice
students.
Conventional Morality
3. Good interpersonal
skills.
ethics of justice.
relationships
level thinking.
can be difficult.
Post-conventional Morality
5.Social contract
discussion format.
Resources
Gallagher, S. (2012). Concept Development: A Hilda Taba Strategy (pp. 1 -15). Unionville, NY: Royal Fireworks Press.
Gilligan, C. (1977). In a different voice: Women's conceptions of self and of morality. Harvard Educational Review, 47(4), 481-517.
Chapter 12 (pp 409 423) in Maker, J. & Schiever, S. (2005). Teaching Models in Education of the Gifted. Austin: ProED
Stepien, W. & Gallagher, S. A. (1993, April). Problem-Based Learning: As Authentic as it Gets. Educational Leadership (pp. 25-28).
Terry, A. W. & Bohenberger, J. E. (2003). Service learning: Fostering a cycle of caring in our gifted youth. The Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 15 (1), 23-32.