Media Spotlight

Teach Secondary - Teach Secondary visit their first Thinking School, Leventhorpe Secondary in Hertfordshire and report back on their findings.

Belfast Live - Top revision tips to ensure you're revising smarter and not longer - Apr 2019

Training Journal - Future of Work - Adaptability - Alisdair Wade urges educationalists to prepare young people to be ready for an automated future - Apr 2019

FE News -  Thinking School Pupils make outstanding Progress - Feb 2019

Training Journal - How Thinking Schools can skills can prepare young people for the march of the robots - Feb 2019

TES -  Becoming a Thinking School transformed our pupils learning - Jan 2019 or view as Pdf

Sec Ed - Embracing Thinking Schools - Jan 2019

Primary Times - Don't stop Thinking Just because it's Christmas - Dec 2018

FE News - Thinking Matters brings the Thinking School approach to exam obsessed China - Nov 2018

FE News and NEConnected - The exam factory model comes at enormous cost at a human level - A response to the Budget announcement that mental health services are to receive a signifiant cash injection - Oct 2018

Teach Secondary - Meddle in the Middle - Dr Dave Walters considers educators 'getting it right' and why Thinking Matters - Aug 2018

Western Morning News - Thinking Schools only way to save jobs from AI - Aug 2018

Back to School Annual 2018- Thinking Outside the Box - the effect of becoming a Thinking School on students with Autism - Aug 2018

TES - Teach the Skills that keep the robots working for us - 26 July 2018

Education for Everybody Online - Becoming a Thinking School helped our pupils become self-motivated learners - 24 July 2018

Teaching Times - Thinking skills could improve GCSE results by a whole grade - July 2018

FE News - Children who learn thinking skills could improve their GCSE results by a whole grade- July 2018

Parent Talk.org - New research reveals striking improvements in schools which adopt ‘map-reading’ model of learning - June 2018

For a full copy of Dr David Walters research report see here

nb: This page is regularly updated with new articles as they appear.

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Range - How Generalists Triumph in a Specialzed World - by David Epstein

A book review by Paul Tyack, Thinking Matters Consultant How can I develop excellence in sports, music or science? You might advise me to specialise, and do it early: If I don’t, others will have a head start on me in the 10,000 hours of Deliberate Practice necessary for outstanding achievement proposed by Anders Ericsson and popularised by Malcolm Gladwell. If I don’t develop this specialism and practice, practice, practice, I may have broader experiences, but am likely to end up a well-rounded ‘jack-of-all-trades, master of none’..

11 Mar 2021

Developing Dialogic Talk in the classroom with students with Autism/Complex needs.

By Judith Stephenson, Thinking School Lead, Barbara Priestman Academy As an academy for students with Autism/ Complex needs, the development of oracy skills is a fundamental part of our students’ learning and impacts positively on their reading and writing levels as well as increasing their confidence, enjoyment and their ability to engage in learning with increasing confidence..