Carolyn's son's school Akiva School in the London Borough of Barnet, has adopted this method.
www.thinkingschool.co.uk A WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF THINKING· An international programme, offered in the UK by an organisation called Kestrel, in partnership with the University of Exeter. Its intellectual underpinning includes Gardner’s 7 intelligences and Bloom’s taxonomy (higher order questioning)· Through training and materials, it provides teachers and pupils with a common thinking language, with a highly positive impact on each school’s culture and attainment levels· A key element is the ‘Thinkers Toolbox’. This includes 8 thinking maps (e.g. bubble maps, circle maps, tree maps, flow maps) each associated with a different thinking process, and de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats.· Rather wonderfully, in my view, children learn about and practise ‘Habits of Mind’. There are sixteen of these in all, but at my son’s school they focussed on about six, including:o MANAGING IMPULSIVITY (aka Inhibition!)o Taking responsible riskso Persistenceo Listening to others, with understanding and empathyo Thinking interdependentlyI see from the website that other habits of mind on the full list include ‘Thinking flexibly’ and ‘Responding with wonderment and awe’ Jhttp://www.thinkingschool.co.uk/resources/thinkers-toolbox · Like P4C (Philosophy for Children), Kestrel presumably have a process for introducing their philosophy and techniques within schools.
www.thinkingschool.co.uk
A WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH TO THE TEACHING OF THINKING· An international programme, offered in the UK by an organisation called Kestrel, in partnership with the University of Exeter. Its intellectual underpinning includes Gardner’s 7 intelligences and Bloom’s taxonomy (higher order questioning)· Through training and materials, it provides teachers and pupils with a common thinking language, with a highly positive impact on each school’s culture and attainment levels· A key element is the ‘Thinkers Toolbox’. This includes 8 thinking maps (e.g. bubble maps, circle maps, tree maps, flow maps) each associated with a different thinking process, and de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats.· Rather wonderfully, in my view, children learn about and practise ‘Habits of Mind’. There are sixteen of these in all, but at my son’s school they focussed on about six, including:o MANAGING IMPULSIVITY (aka Inhibition!)o Taking responsible riskso Persistenceo Listening to others, with understanding and empathyo Thinking interdependentlyI see from the website that other habits of mind on the full list include ‘Thinking flexibly’ and ‘Responding with wonderment and awe’ J http://www.thinkingschool.co.uk/resources/thinkers-toolbox
· Like P4C (Philosophy for Children), Kestrel presumably have a process for introducing their philosophy and techniques within schools.