• Teach learners how to learn
• Teach learners how to think
• Discover, value and use thinking skills
• Discover, value and use learning styles
• Discover, value and use multiple intelligences profiles
• Infuse the best new educational practices with the best traditional ones

• Because 21^st Century learners/workers need skills more than knowledge
• Because future economic success depends on skills and creativity
• Because some traditional educational practices are not working
• Because other traditional educational practices are working yet need updating

  Shift Happens - why we need to change how we learn

 Do Schools Kill Creativity - why school is bigger than Literacy

• By matching teaching styles to learning styles
• By valuing each learner for what they do well
• By educating for skills, attitudes and values as well as knowledge
• By preparing learners for their futures not our pasts
• By valuing, supporting and resourcing all educators

The principal purpose of this website is to help you with the 'how?' by offering straightforward theory, free classroom resources and suggestions for embedding a Thinking Classroom philosophy into your own work. Help for you comes through 3 concepts which together describe the learning process:

1. Learning Styles which describes the initial 'Accessing' part of learning: the unique preferences that we all have for how we experience new information and ideas (visual, auditory, together, alone, outside, inside etc.)

2. Thinking Skills which explains how we 'Process' ideas once we've experienced them: how do we assimilate, evaluate, organise, play around with and plan to use what we've found out?

3. Multiple Intelligences which shows the many different ways in which we can 'Express' what we've just accessed and processed: do we prefer to write it down or talk about it? Sing it or dance it? Draw it or paint it? There are more ways to demonstrate your learning than through a written exam. 

Learning = Access + Process + Express

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'Emotivation' (not yet clickable!) is a made up word to acknowledge that the 3 ideas above don't embed automatically. Their success depends on many things including context, motivation, emotional intelligence, collaboration, self-esteem and the strength of your professional learning community.

If these ideas resonate with your own beliefs then Thinking Classroom is for you.

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