Developing a Classroom Culture of Thinking
This workshop looks at what teachers do to develop a thinking culture and what students do within a classroom culture of thinking. A scope and sequence for the teaching of thinking will be presented.

 


Thinking Through Key Competencies (NZ)
This workshop looks at the key competencies through the lens of thinking … what are the thinking strategies that teachers will need to know, to use and to infuse into curriculum delivery so as to meet the challenges presented by the new framework?

The day will be highly interactive and full of
practical ideas for teaching critical, creative and caring thinking, there-by equipping teachers at all levels of schooling with the tools and strategies that they need in order to confidently address the demands of the key competencies as they deliver the curriculum with a strong thinking focus.

Teaching & Learning with Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner's Eight Intelligences are explained, a personal MI inventory will be developed and MI as a planning, instructional and assessment tool for teachers will be discussed.

The Teaching of Complex Thinking
Practical strategies and activities to promote the three "C's" of thinking (critical, creative and caring thinking). Methods of encouraging metacognition will also be discussed.

 

Lift-Off to Learning!!!
Student Engagement and Enquiry Based Learning

This practical workshop is suitable for teachers who may be aware of many thinking strategies and tools, and who wish to examine the various phases and elements of lesson design more closely with the view to understanding where the application of various thinking models and strategies may be most effective in the learning process.

 

Some examples of sessions facilitated regularly include:
Developing a Classroom Culture of Thinking
The Teaching of Complex Thinking
Lift-Off to Learning!!!
Designing the Thinking Curriculum at your School
Reading, Writing & Thinking (NZ)
Thinking Through the Key Competencies (NZ)
Better Questioning
Teaching & Learning with Multiple Intelligences
Infusing Thinking into the Secondary Curriculum
Beyond Bloom's and Gardner

Beyond Bloom's and Gardner

There are at least 80 different models and strategies available as planning structures for teachers.
Rarely do we venture beyond Bloom'n'Gardner
to do so.
A range of models and strategies for teaching and learning will be introduced focussing on:-
~ cognitive aspects of learning ~
~ affective components of learning ~
~ developing critical thinking ~
~ creative thinking ~

Infusing Thinking into the Secondary Curriculum
A range of models and strategies to deliver content with a focus on high order thinking will be introduced and discussed.
A highly practical session with time allowed for teachers to begin planning around some of the frameworks presented.

Reading, Writing & Thinking (NZ)

This one-day workshop explores the important connection between
reading, writing and thinking.
It aims to showcase a range of tools
for students that will see them
interacting more deeply with texts
and to assist them in creating their own.
 

Designing the Thinking Curriculum at your School
This workshop outlines a five-step process that will assist school and curriculum leaders at all levels in implementing a whole-school approach to infusing thinking into the curriculum.
It provides frameworks for ensuring that practices
such as the explicit teaching of thinking become an enduring part of the culture of the school and that all students engage in high order thinking in every lesson, every day.

Better Questioning
Amongst other tools, the newly revised
Blooms Taxonomy
 will be discussed as frameworks for developing (in both teacher and students alike), the ability to generate a balanced range of questions requiring qualitatively different types of thinking.