Dianne

Day 1 - Thursday, 26th April. Great introduction - I am looking forward to the course. Paul and I have conducted the Essentials course several times for Participant Teachers for staff at our own school and others in our cluster so we are looking forward to a chance to enhance our own PD. TWT seems to be more intense without as much time to develop the Unit Portfolio. I wish we had not had to leave early. I feel that we really missed some key stuff. Enjoyed using tools such as the wikispace and [|http://del.icio.us]!

Day 2 - Friday, 27th April. A very busy intense day - I felt a bit behind at the start because we had left early the previous day to conduct an Essential course back at our school.

It was good to do some hands on stuff with the Visual Ranking and Seeing Reason tools. I also liked the intense sessions on EQ. This section in the TWT manual is excellent!

Day 3 - Monday, 30th April. Another intense day - but I feel that my understanding of the use of the Visual Ranking and Seeing Reason tools is much clearer. I appreciated the catch up session from Day 1 - I feel that I am back up to speed.

I think that the sugar hit is essential at 3:30 pm - I seem to go a little peaky!

A very rough draft is attached!



Day 4 - Tuesday, 1st May. A great deal was achieved. Refinement of the Seeing reason tool and we began on the Showing evidence tool. They do not seem as complicated with someone to unpack it for us. New rough draft!

Questions :** If you have done the Essentials course, What are the similarities and differences between the Teach Thinking with Technology and the Essentials course. What are the things you are wondering or still have questions about.
 * Day 5

I completed the Essentials MT in Dec 2004 and Paul Wright and I are currently delivering our third course to PT. Similarities with the Essentials - well-organised, loads of resources, the idea that you develop a Unit Plan around a teaching unit.

Differences - TWT - I feel that developing the Curriculum Framing Questions was more strongly developed and reinforced in TWT. There seemed to be less time to develop actual resources eg. a PowerPoint to introduce the Unit or Student Scaffolds in the Training sessions and the emphasis was on developing skill with the thinking tools. Which I guess was probably necessary!

Anne and Trudie were fabulous resources for the MT and led very much by example with the use of a wiki as a training resource.