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SUCCESS is an approach to Higher Order Thinking
for all, students and teachers alike. The acronym sets out
the stages of the process of thought:
Start out
Use it
Connect
Compare
Explore
Synthesize
Start out again
It's designed to lead us from the basic process of learning
something new and then practising it - Starting out and
Using it - to something much deeper.
When we start to make Connections and Comparisons
with other things we've learnt, even with other subjects,
we start really to understand, not merely to repeat.
Having made connections, we embark on Higher Order Thinking
when we Explore this new knowledge; for example,
when we hypothesize and ask, 'What might happen if…?'
True deep learning occurs when, after all those
stages of thinking, we Synthesize: we pull all those
strands of thought together and work out what we have learnt,
how we have learnt it, and how we can apply that new knowledge.
Then we can Start out again; but this time from a
new, more advanced point: so SUCCESS is not a circular
process but an upward spiral.
The SUCCESS acronym gives us all key questions that
act as triggers to move us through the process of Higher
Order Thinking. Students can use the same questions
in different subjects. We have also created SUCCESS
posters/templates related to specific subjects.
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