4. Creating the classroom programme: a model

Known as the “Multi-Dimensional Model", this structure takes the Model of Needs and Conceptual Planning and uses their components to create a practical and very flexible framework for classroom programming:

• “Opening our minds” – beginning with an introductory challenge
• “Establishing our data” – a research phase
• “Exploring our ideas” – make/create/do: a hands-on creative and exploratory phase
• “Examining our thinking” – think/reason/discuss: a debating and reflective phase
• “Evaluating our learning” – a critiquing and assessing phase.