Overview

This work offers a challenging approach to enhancing children''s learning through a process of reflective analysis called "innovative thinking". Using practical examples drawn from a variety of learning contexts, the author:

• provides a framework for reviewing and reflecting on classroom experience, focusing particularly on those aspects of teaching and learning that are surprising, puzzling or worrying;
• outlines a series of steps that should help teachers generate new ideas and practical strategies to guide the development of their work;
• offers an approach which emphasizes strategies that can be incorporated into teachers'' work with the whole class, and to the potential benefit of all children;
• and illustrates how "innovative thinking" can assist teachers in enhancing the learning and inclusion of individual children whose classroom responses give cause for concern.