| High Scope is a thinking skills approach
which has a firm basis in both theory and empirical research.
It is used in nursery and KS1 classrooms and has demonstrated
long-term beneficial effects. Thinking in the approach is essential
for the child and the classroom assistant. Two schools in
the SELB have been using High Scope for a significant number
of years : St Peter’s PS and Dromintee PS. In Jan-Mar
2003 a piece of research matched the two schools to two controls
and the P4 children were observed for evidence of thinking
skills or ‘habits of mind’. The results of that
research are available from kate.ohanlon@selb.org
An encouraging outcome has been the opportunity to train
28 P1 teachers and classroom assistants in the theories and
approaches of High Scope in the coming year (2003 –
04). We are also planning to train a trainer in High Scope
so that there will be ongoing opportunity for more of our
teachers to access High Scope approaches.
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