Creating a Thinking and Learning Community

This course has been developed in response to those
schools who have effectively established Teaching Thinking
approaches at the classroom level, but who now wish to
develop a more consistent and co-ordinated approach to
teaching thinking across the whole school community.


“We now know where we are and where we are
going as a school”

Who is it for?

Everyone involved with teaching and learning in a school,
college or network: teachers, teaching assistants, formal leaders,
managers and governors.

Aims of the course

- to facilitate an ‘appreciative enquiry’ into an institutions current
  situation regarding thinking for learning.
- to facilitate the creation of a school ‘vision’ for thinking for
  learning and to identify the steps towards its realisation.
- to help build capacity for shared leadership and management in
  the creation of a thinking for learning community.
- to communicate the latest developments in thinking for learning.

Course content

The course explores:
- how to develop a more consistent and co-ordinated approach to
   teaching thinking across the whole school.
- how the principles of teaching thinking – co-construction, challenge,
  mediation, collaboration, and reflection might inform the wider
  culture of the school community.
- the ways in which a thinking for learning community might be
   sustained.

Course structure

The course consists of 12 – 15 hours of taught time which
includes consultation time and collaborative work, structured
as follows:

1 Lead in consultation [2 hours]
   Meeting with consultant to discuss the implications of the course.

2 First full day session [5 hours]


“We were really learning together.”

3 Follow-up collaborative work
   Between the two full day sessions, the school commits to
   devoting some time to collaborative development work
   which at this stage might include: staff consultation; pupil
   consultation; meeting time etc. This experience will form the
   feedback at the following session.

4 Second full day session [5 hours]

5 Lead out consultation [2 hours]
   Consultancy support with prioritisation and action planning.

Cost

Please contact us for details:

tel. 01670 783482
ian@thinkwell.org.uk

University accreditation

For a small amount of additional work, you can upgrade
this work to gain the Critical Reflection on Professional Study
certificate worth 20 credits on the Masters course.