Thinking Matters Update February 2020
Welcome to our latest Thinking Matters Update. We’re delighted to share news of events and activities taking place both in the UK and overseas.
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Media Spotlight
The work and impact of the Thinking Matters approach and Thinking Schools has regular coverage in both National and Educational media press and publications. Recent coverage includes:
Reculver School – A Thinking Journey
Reculver Primary School is part of the Aquila Diocese of Canterbury Multi Academies Trust where Thinking Matters has been working with a focused group of primary heads who, in turn will now lead the training in schools within their own MAT.
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Teaching Opportunities in Bangkok, Thailand 2020
Amnuay Silpa are looking for adaptable, experienced and committed Primary, Secondary and TEFL teachers who have high expectations of children’s learning, and an enthusiasm and passion for working with young people. The successful candidates need to be able to demonstrate excellent classroom practice, the ability to motivate pupils and a willingness to work in partnership with the staff team.
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Vote of Confidence for Barbara Priestman Academy
Barbara Priestman Academy is for students aged 11-19 years with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder or complex learning difficulties. They are also an accredited Advanced Thinking School. Judith Stephenson, Thinking School Coordinator at the school, shares the very positive and rewarding acknowledgement they have recently received for their first class Thinking School practices.
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Book Review – Creating Cultures of Thinking, Ron Ritchhart (2015)
‘Any curriculum, good or bad, will sink or float on the culture of the classroom in which it is enacted.’
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Impressive growth for Thinking Matters in Nigeria
Thinking Schools in Nigeria, with Thinking Matters, is being driven by Abraham Ogunkanmbi, Programme Director at the Greensprings Montessori Centre in Lagos. Here is his report for recent developments in Greensprings itself, followed by an update of activity in other schools in Nigeria.
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Lithuanian Kindergarten embrace Thinking Schools
In Lithuania, we first heard about Thinking Schools in 2015. Richard Cummins together with Thinking Matters partner, Thinking Organisations, introduced the mission, philosophy and other main points at the event “Mokykla be sienų 2015” (trans. School with no walls 2015) which was held in Vilnius at the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre Litexpo.
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Thinking Matters in Norway
Hallagerbakken Skole in Oslo, Norway has been developing their approach as a Thinking School since 2015. A group of their experienced teachers and school leaders has recently commenced training to enable them to become a hub for provision of professional development and consultancy support for future Thinking Schools across Norway, with a view to extending the Thinking Schools network there.
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Exciting Developments in Northern Ireland
There is growing interest from schools in Northern Ireland to become Thinking Schools. The Thinking Matters’ approach provides a useful perspective for schools there, many of whom have been searching for more than decade to find an evidence-informed, student-centred model to assist their implementation of the statutory curriculum (CCEA, 2007) in which a ‘Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities’ framework is ‘infused’ through the Areas of Learning.
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