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SOLO Taxonomy: A Guide for Schools Book 1

A common language

Translate "learning how to learn" from a pedagogical principle into everyday classroom practice with this series. SOLO Taxonomy offers a clear, simple and robust way of identifying the level of cognitive complexity of learning intentions and outcomes, and consequently makes feedback and "feed forward" more effective in the learning process - ensuring learning outcomes are visible to teachers, students and parents, alike.

Ages: 5-16 | Pages: 64 | Code: 5619 | ISBN: 9781927143568

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Pam Hook

Pam Hook is an educational consultant who advises schools and institutions in New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and the Pacific Islands on developing curricula and pedagogies for learning to learn based on SOLO Taxonomy. She is a popular keynote speaker at conferences. Pam is author of more than 25 books on SOLO Taxonomy, including titles translated into Danish, and has developed a series of SOLO web-based apps, Apple iPad apps and YouTube videos. She hosts collaborative online communities for SOLO practitioners on Twitter @arti_choke @globalsolo and Pinterest www.pinterest.nz/solotaxonomy.
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Julie Mills

Julie Mills is an educational consultant in learning and teaching, a role she has enjoyed since 2005. Working in schools throughout New Zealand, her focus is on raising student achievement. With a depth of understanding of curriculum, achievement and assessment practices, she facilitates a range of contracts for the Ministry of Education, writes educational resources for both the public and private sectors and presents regularly at conferences. Julie has an extensive background in teaching at all primary and intermediate levels. She has also held senior management positions and was a founding school principal/head teacher for four years.

Contents

Introduction4
1. Introducing SOLO Taxonomy5
What is SOLO Taxonomy?5
Why is SOLO Taxonomy useful?10
2. How can schools, teachers and students use SOLO Taxonomy?11
SOLO on display – talking about and seeing SOLO levels in all learning areas11
SOLO learning verbs – a common language of learning 13Constructive alignment14
Designing three-level "assessment for learning" tasks17
Student learning logs20
3. Effective strategies and success criteria22
What are HOT SOLO maps?22
How do HOT SOLO maps work together with target vocabulary and self assessment rubrics?22
What are the benefits of this approach?28
Overview of HOT SOLO maps29
Unistructural and multistructural HOT SOLO maps30
Relational HOT SOLO maps36
Extended abstract HOT SOLO maps54
4. Where to next?63
References63
Index of templates64

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