WORKSHOP WAY®

LEARN • THINK • MANAGE

Pilon® Workshop Way®

…is a system of human growth for education for learners of all ages, created by Grace H. Pilon, SBS, Ph.D. It is an approach to learning which provides equal opportunities for all to learn how to learn, how to think, and how to manage their lives.

THINKERS®A Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

Illustrating THINKERS®, a task in the

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

by

Barbara H. Lake

THINKERS®

THINK

DECIDE

SYNTHESIZE

PROVIDES ALL STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE HIGHER LEVEL THINKING SKILLS.

A WORKSHOP WAY® TASK WHICH

THINKERS® Utilize knowledge skills already mastered

Develop the power to think quickly or slowly

Develop decision-making capacity

Increase ability to solve problems;

Increase ability to think critically;

Promote independent thinking

THINKERS®

Research infers:

THINKERS® develop metacognitive skills in students. Fisher, 1998 Metcalfe & Shimasmura, 1996 Watson, 1996 Campione, 1987 Sternberg, 1985 Bloom, 1956

METACOGNITIONRefers to a learner’s automatic awareness of their own knowledge and their ability to understand, control, and manipulate their own cognitive processes.

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A THINKERS® Purpose

Foundational creativity is activated!

Thinking by creating order Sorting Categorizing Matching Organizing Sequencing

THINKERS®

nourish “FOUNDATIONAL CREATIVITY” – willingness and bravery to

live regardless of the consequences.

THINKERS® provide equal opportunity

to 100% of the students to develop

logical thinking skills.

Where do you do a THINKER®?

At a desk

On a table

On the floor

Get help from a friend.

It is intelligent to

ask for help.

The teacher uses the student’s Progress Chart when okaying a THINKER®.

THINKER® Experiencesshould be good. It is importantthat the teacher look at the student when “okaying” the THINKER.

The personal gaze merges affective and cognitive forces which push human development towards its fullness.

The PERSONAL GAZE

THINKERS® help grow all the human skills. Initiative Independence Responsibility Courage Ease in risking

Foundational creativity

Self-confidence Go-stop power Honesty

THINKERS® help sharpen sense powers.

See better

Talk better

Sense of order and dignity

THINKERS® help satisfy intellectual needs. Willingness to be

involved in work by creative management leading to positive self-esteem

Ease in talking with peers and adults

Feelings of importance, intelligence, and power of management.

Satisfaction in doing one’s work without competition and without adult interference

THINKERS® help develop basic abilities of consciousness.

Learning how to learn, think, and manage

Concentrating on a task

Making decisions

Thinking with precision

Opening up learning capacity

Dead-sureness

give 100% of the students equal opportunities daily to risk creating their own order in putting pieces of knowledge together in patterns that make sense to them.

THINKERS®

THINKERS® Are educational games; Can be used in any content area;

Satisfy the need for success; Nourish growth in human skills; Knowledge becomes the by-product of the process.

THINKERS® are produced by The Workshop Way,

Inc.; are copyrighted materials with all

rights reserved; ordering information:

www.workshopway.org

CREDITS Workshop Way® System of Education

– Grace H. Pilon, SBS, Ph.D

Workshop Way ®, A Synthesis of the Original Manuscript – Mary Anne Dalton, SSJ, Ph.D and Angela T. Lydon, SBS, Ph.D

Graphics – Microsoft Clip-Art On Line

Photos – Children from Park View Middle School, South Hill, VA and Topnotch Village, Chase City, VA

Music – SPIRIT: The Long Road Back ©2002

The Workshop Way, Inc. © 2009 All rights reserved.

www.workshopway.org

WORKSHOP WAY®

LEARN • THINK • MANAGE

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