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:
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
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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I write this as schools and colleges are now closed for an indeterminate period of time. This week we were due to host a visit by two groups of teachers from schools in Lithuania, now cancelled but fortunately one group also visited in February and we went to see several Thinking Schools in London..
Peter Short, Thinking School Lead, Wellington Primary SchoolDo you feel you are part of something special? You are here, reading a newsletter from Thinking Matters that shares the experiences of a range of very special schools. So, you should, because you are an agent of change..