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** CONGRATULATIONS** to Glenmoor & Winton Academy for making the shortlist for Secondary School of the Year in 2019 TES awards!
New Study shows remarkable results for Pupils from Thinking Schools
Media Spotlight - news items and articles about Thinking Matters in the Media - take a look ...
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:
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.
Learn more about the benefits of adopting a whole school approach to the teaching of thinking.
New research undertaken by the University of Exeter shows the Thinking School approach impacts greatly on the progress of pupils in both primary and secondary schools in England as measured by P8, reading progress, writing progress and mathematics progress. .
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:.