Short course

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Methodology

    Distance Learning

Suitable for: Developers and educators.

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Course programme

PRESENTATION

I Thinker will help you develop independent learning and thinking skills.

If your students struggle to find and sort key information, organize their thinking, evaluate and critically appraise what’s in front of them, then I Thinker delivers a solution. I Thinker builds your students’ appreciation of what lies behind thinking through very realistic contemporary challenges. They will enjoy the challenge of thinking like crime scene detectives, archaeologists and festival planners.

The module gives you an excellent starting point to develop an approach to thinking skills which contains challenge and progression. It will help deliver a competency based approach such as PLTS and has assessment for learning built into each lesson. The module helps students:

-Develop an appreciation of the difference between deep and shallow thinking
-Grow an extended ‘thinkers’ vocabulary
-Build up a repertoire of easy to use thinking tools which go beyond the classroom
-Work together on enquiry based challenges
-Apply their thinking skills to their chosen career or job
-Transfer what they learn into other lessons

I Thinker

-comes with over 100 easily accessible high quality learning resources for use at the click of a button
gives you a complete classroom set of 52 unique thinking cards
-builds learning through five levels of thinking: how to find information, organize it, judge it, transfer it and innovate
-can be delivered as 20 separate lessons or, should you choose, as 3 extended enquiry projects
-provides the basis of Community, Enterprise or Thinking ‘days.’
-Has a ‘career thinker’ dimension to help students go beyond narrow career stereotypes
-will help you and your colleagues deliver engaging learning experiences and the PLTS

The I Thinker module is the most substantial value for money package available and comprises:

-An easy to use disc with one click access to all 20 lessons
-Teacher manual describing each lesson in detail
-Students’ learning journal for you to reproduce as whole class sets
-A complete set of classroom thinking cards as a pdf for your own use,
-Competency matrices which detail how the module delivers the 5Rs, PLTS, SEAL and the Scottish capabilities
-A set of laminated classroom thinking cards
-Electronic thinking tools for whole school use.

I Thinker

Price on request