Background Information

I have been trying to introduce several TA Systems in my practice with the secondary school students. If you are interested you can find some of the reflections on my experience here.

This year I decided to try to introduce thinking through the Text Technology of the Thinking Approach. These are my reflections on the first experience of working with this technology.

• Form: 11
• Time period: Jan 15 – Feb 11 (7 lessons)
• Text: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and a system of tasks to it. We were working only with Part 1 of the text.

Running ahead, I can say that I do not see much inventive thinking in what we did. Nevertheless, I think that some useful conclusions were drawn from this experience that’s why it is worth posting this reflection here.

General Content

• Background information 
• Lesson 1: Before Reading the Text 
• Lesson 2: Dealing with Content 
• Lesson 3: Dealing with Ideas 
• Lesson 4: Dealing with Language of Description 
• Lesson 5: Evaluating Descriptions of Jonathan Seagull
• Lesson 6: Dealing with Problems 
• Lesson 7: Evaluating Essays
• Working with TA Text (Jonathan Seagull): Conclusions