SOLO Taxonomy in Student Inquiry - Bk 1 - Using student inquiry to develop creative and critical thinkers
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Book 1 explains how you can use SOLO to design inquiry learning experiences that shift the focus from behavioural outcomes to cognitive activity – directing student inquiry outcomes from surface to deep learning.
Pages: 70 | Ages: 5-18
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About the Authors
Pam Hook is an educational consultant (HookED Educational Consultancy, www.pamhook.com), who works with New Zealand and Australian schools to develop curricula and pedagogies for learning to learn based on SOLO Taxonomy. She has published articles on thinking, learning, e-learning and gifted education, and has written curriculum material for government and business. As well as authoring and co-authoring more than 15 books on SOLO Taxonomy (some of which have been translated into Danish), she is co-author of two science textbooks widely used in New Zealand secondary schools. She is also a popular keynote speaker at conferences.
Suzette Ipsen is a Hapu Leader at the newly opened Rototuna Junior High School in Hamilton, New Zealand. Previously she was a co-lecturer (ICT) at the University of Waikato and taught for many years in an extended learning classroom. As well as completing the Teacher Professional Development in Languages programme, she has a Graduate Diploma in Education Technologies. Suzette is an advocate for lifelong learning and enjoys challenging the thinking of students by using effective questioning techniques.
Melody McCombe is a team leader at a large urban intermediate school in New Zealand, as well as being the staff elected member of its board of trustees. Passionate about deep learning, she believes SOLO is her key tool to enable this. Her conference presentations include a workshop on SOLO Taxonomy in 2017 to assist teachers to deepen students’ thinking about the key competencies. Melody has a Master of Education (Distinction), a higher diploma of teaching, a language teaching diploma and a diploma of teaching children with special needs. On a 2014 educational scholarship, she travelled to Japan to study the Japanese language.