Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools

Cameron Paterson is the Director of Learning at Wesley College, Melbourne. He also works for Harvard’s Project Zero. His accomplishments have been recognized with awards for teaching, leadership, and innovation. Cameron is the co-editor of Flip the System Australia.Simon Brooks is an educational consultant working with schools around the world interested in transforming learning and teaching by promoting thinking, understanding, and engagement for all learners. He has held senior educational roles in the UK, Australia, and Malaysia, most recently as Principal of the Australian International School Malaysia.

• Table of ContentsForeword – Ron RitchhartList of ContributorsIntroduction – From Control to CuriosityCameron Paterson and Simon Brooks (Eds)Section 1 – Empowering LearnersChapter 1 - Unlearning ControlCameron PatersonChapter 2 – Stoking The Fires: How Cultivating Curiosity Leads to Enhanced Engagement and Deeper UnderstandingSimon BrooksSection 2 - Shifting ParadigmsChapter 3 - Restructuring schools for relationships, play, and time to thinkPasi SahlbergChapter 4 - Indigenous Knowledges – valuing different thinking paradigmsProfessor Melitta Hogarth, Dr John Doolah & Mr Justin WilkeySection 3 - Transforming ClassroomsChapter 5 - “Will this be on the test?”: How Teachers in Australian Schools Help Students Focus More on Learning and Less on WorkSimon BrooksChapter 6 - Exploring Collaborative LearningMilica SavicChapter 7 – Encouraging Learners to Do the Heavy LiftingLana FleiszigChapter 8 – Creating a Culture of Self-Directed learning: Risk-taking, Feedback, Goals, repeatApril TaylorSection 4 - Leading Professional GrowthChapter 9 – Pathways to Cultures of Thinking in Troubled TimesNicole MocklerChapter 10 – Cultivating a Culture of Thinking at Masada College: Something We Are, Rather Than Something We DoRyan Gill & Carla GaglianoChapter 11 - Principles of Adult Learning in Cultures of Thinking: Challenges, Calls to Action and Triumphs Samantha GoochChapter 12 - Empowering Educators: Using Professional Learning Communities to Embed Cultures of ThinkingKara Baxter Chapter 13 – Why are school meetings so bad? Some reflections on improving collaboration in schools Doug BroadbentSection 5 - Navigating ChangeChapter 14 - Pitfalls and Pathways: Transforming Culture and Sustaining Change in a Culture of ThinkingMark ChurchChapter 15 – Breakfast, Phonics and Cultures of Thinking: Modern tools for an education renaissance Lani BrockwellChapter 16 – Seeping Upwards and Across: Embedding Cultures of Thinking at Brisbane Girls Grammar SchoolDr Bruce Addison & Susan Garson Chapter 17 - Thinking at the Forefront: Immanuel College's Cultures of Thinking JourneyMartyn AndersonConclusion – The Best Teachers Are SubversiveCameron Paterson and Simon Brooks (Eds)