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| 20 Thinking Tools | Twenty Thinking Tools is designed to support the development of collaborative enquiry-based teaching and learning through class discussion and small-group work. More information |
| A Course For Gifted Thinkers | The activities within these books provide students with theopportunity to learn and practice creative thinking skills ininteresting and stimulating situations. More information |
| A Journey Into Childrens Minds | This DVD is about children, teachers and schools and how they learn to think together. More information |
| A Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom | Written and designed for TEFLs(Teachers of English as a ForeignLanguage), this is a visuallyappealing, thoroughly practicalresource More information |
| A River Child | The impact of A River Child has been thoroughly researched and shown to have very positive impacts on literacy, geographical understanding and student motivation. More information |
| A Workshop of the Possible | Nurturing Children's Creative Development. What makes this book so valuable to teachers is its emphasis on application, featuring, interviews with children in the midst of the creative process and samples of students' work in science, maths, social studies, and art showing the development of their thinking. More information |
| Activating and Engaging Habits of Mind | This book explores how the habits of mind can be communicated to students and stimulated in the subject areas More information |
| Activities For Developing Thinking Skills | Activities for Developing ThinkingSkills provides instructions andsuggestions for the explicit teachingof thinking skills to all students. More information |
| Am I Right? Or Am I Right? | Am I Right? or Am I Right? gives you theopportunity to think about the ways inwhich the choices you make matter toyourself and others. More information |
| An Imaginative Approach To Teaching | In this book, award–winning educator Kieran Egan shows how we can transform the experience of KS1-4 students and help them become more knowledgeable and more creative in their thinking. More information |
| Analyse It! 10 Minute Activators | Brilliant 10-minute analysis activators! Teach and sharpen those analysis skills with these warm-ups. More information |
| ARCTIC STORIES | This pack is built around the stories of Arctic peoples and has been designed to promote the skills based curriculum with a particular focus on thinking and communication skills, also covering aspects of ICT and drama. More information |
| Asking Better Questions | Learn a host of inventive new ways to encourage students to become more effective learners by posing more thoughtful questions. More information |
| Assessing and Reporting on Habits of Mind | How do we know that students are adopting good habits of mind for learning? This books provides detailed suggestions More information |
| Boys and Writing | Packed with tried and tested ideas, this book looks at how students' writing can be improved through a thinking skills’ agenda. More information |
| Building 101 ways to Learning Power | Practical ideas for teachers to engage with students and help them to become better learners More information |
| Building Learning Power | A British-based Initiative from Guy Claxton More information |
| Building Learning Power (BLP) in Action | The book considers the role of each Learning-Power disposition on pupils learning More information |
| But Why? Developing philosophical thinking in the classroom | This package provides a good introduction to Philosophy for Children in primary education More information |
| Changing Children's Minds | This book is one of the few non-academic accounts of Reuven Feuerstein's work available in English More information |
| Connecting Concepts | For teachers of English, PSHE, Citizenship, RE and the Humanities, this book introduces the strategy of 'concept gaming' More information |
| Covering the Curriculum with Stories | Covering the Curriculum with Stories is an exciting and unique resource, presenting a set of six delightful, cross-curricular play-based projects that deliver outstanding learning experiences. More information |
| Creating Enquiring Minds | Inspiring, intelligent and practical, this user-friendly guide provides a wonderful introduction to using P4C (Philosophy for Children) in primary schools. More information |
| Creative Children, Imaginative Teaching | This book sets out to explore what Creativity means in both practical and theoretical terms for children More information |
| Creativity Across the Primary Curriculum | This book takes an inspirational look at how to foster children's creativity as well as following the guidelines in the National Curriculum More information |
| Creativity Extenders | Best-selling companion to Creativity Starters, with thought-extending activities that result in eye (and brain)-catching posters. More information |
| Creativity in Education | A rounded, comprehensive, guide to issues of practice, pedagogy and policy concerned with creative education More information |
| Creativity Starters | Ready-to-go creative thinking exercises; they can be used as ten-minute class oral activities or as individual written activities. More information |
| Creativity Unit Extenders | Extenders to push units in mind-expanding new directions. More information |
| Deeper Learning | Based on the most current research on cognition and the brain, this exciting book for Years 4–12 provides teachers with a systematic, reflective approach to incorporating powerful learning and content processing techniques into everyday instruction. More information |
| Designing a Thinking Curriculum | A practical, first-hand account of the experiences of teachers and curriculum consultants in Australia More information |
| Developing a Thinking Classroom | A workbook for professional learning teams More information |
| Developing More Curious Minds | A passionate argument for developing more curiosity in schools through helping students, teachers and managers to ask good questions More information |
| Differentiating with Graphic Organisers | Tools to foster creative thinking. More information |
| Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind | Essential habits of mind for learning are introduced and explained with examples from a range of curriculum areas More information |
| Drama for Learning | Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education More information |
| Essential Creativity in the Classroom: Inspiring Kids | Essential Creativity is about giving all children the opportunity to fulfil their potential. More information |
| Graphic Thinkers | Think problems and ideas through effectively!
Visual organisation teams up with thinking skills to help guide and sequence students’ thought processes through to a logical result. More information |
| H.O.T Units - Higher Order Thinking Units | Plug these hot units right into your classroom. More information |
| HIGHER ORDER THINKING - The Multiple Intelligences Way | In contrast to the traditional 'memorise and regurgitate' method of education, this book uses eight intelliigencies to show how to move students' learning from the level of acquiring basic facts and figures, to the higher-order levels of application, integration and transfer of learning. More information |
| How to Have a Beautiful Mind | In clear, practical language, de Bono shows how applying lateral and parallel thinking skills to your conversation can improve your mind. More information |
| How to Improve your School | This impressive book on school improvement is based on research into the experiences of pupils in UK schools More information |
| How to Teach Habits of Mind | AT LAST! A practical book on HOW to teach the Habits of Mind. More information |
| How to Teach Thinking and Learning Skills | This book provides a highly effective method for introducing a comprehensive set of thinking and learning skills to children aged 5 to 11 More information |
| How to Teach Thinking Skills | A practical guide full of ready-to-use activities and worksheets to switch on the ideas in your students! More information |
| Improving Concentration Skills | This CD resource offers a structured programme for working with children individually, which aims to help them to:listen better, be able to concentrate, learn to focus on what is relevant, improve their reasoning, learn to see and to make connections - and to transfer what they learn to subject lessons. More information |
| Improving Memory Skills | Successful ways to develop memory skills and improve learning capacity. CD Resource. More information |
| Improving Thinking in the Classroom (Revised) | The rationale behind Improving Thinking in the Classroom is to give teachers useful and practical strategies that will enable them to provide all their children with an engaging, exciting and challenging learning environment. More information |
| Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind | Ideas on how the habits of mind can be supported across the curriculum and how they can be developed progressively. More information |
| Intelligent Learning | Intelligent Learning is a complete training course for promoting curiosity, independent thinking, good dialogue and thinking skills in your school. More information |
| Inventions Unlimited! | A treasure-trove! Includes Bloom's activities, worksheets for inventing in the real world, and techniques for never-ending inventing! So flexible it can be used as a class unit or for enrichment to meet many Achievement Objectives. If you are interested in learning, you’ll love this book! More information |
| Language Arts:Higher Level Thinking Questions | You will find hundreds of use-again questions to promote thinking, writing, and discussion about: Adventure Stories, Book Review, Poetry, Story Characters, Story Plot, Story Setting, Story Structure, Vocabulary, and many more! More information |
| Learning and Leading With Habits of Mind | Bringing together all four books in the ASCD groundbreaking Habits of Mind series, this volume presents a compelling case for why it’s more relevant than ever to align the missions of schools and classrooms to teaching students how to think and behave intelligently when they encounter problems and challenges in learning and in life. More information |
| Learning for Themselves | Learning for Themselves offers teachers a repertoire ofeffective strategies and frameworks to nurture independentlearning. More information |
| Learning Power Heroes | Learning Power Heroes shows howprimary schools are capitalising onchildren’s powers of imitation tohelp them build strong foundationsfor their own learning lives. More information |
| Learning to Think- Thinking to Learn | This resource is a practical guide forteachers of all levels to plan learningactivities with a thinking focus. More information |
| Let's Think! | An innovative programme designed to develop the thinking abilities of 5 and 6 year olds More information |
| Let’s Think.....Philosophical Stories to Stimulate Thinking | These philosophical stories aim to stimulate thinking in children. They are ideal for use in assembly and are divided into 10 themes, with 5 stories per theme. More information |
| Lift Off To Learning | Lift Off to Learning brings together thinking skills, inquiry-based learning, and the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) skills in a practical approach for teaching and learning in the primary and middle years. More information |
| Listen Up ! Book 1 | Listening and thinking skills for Key Stage 2/3 More information |
| Listen Up! Book 2 | Listening and thinking skills for Key Stage 2/3 More information |
| MAKING MEANING | Making Meaning is a handbook about ‘logovisual thinking’. Logovisual thinking is a flexible technique for stimulating and tracking thinking. More information |
| Mind Maps for Kids: An Introduction | The Shortcut to Success at School. Using clear and relevant examples, Tony Buzan explains how Mind Mapping can be used in every subject. More information |
| Mind Maps for Kids: Max Your Memory and Concentration | Tony Buzan shows kids how they too can become champions of their own memories and enjoy greater self esteem and success in everything they do. More information |
| Mind Maps for Kids: Rev Up for Revision | Using clear and relevant examples, Tony Buzan explains how Mind Mapping can be used in every subject. More information |
| More Thinking Through Geography | This book provides more examples of strategies to raise the achievement of pupils in geography More information |
| Nurturing Independent Thinkers | St John’s School and Community College in Wiltshire made headline news in challenging old ideas about homework and the National Curriculum and developed its own integrated curriculum. Nurturing Independent Thinkers is a practical guide to the implementation of the ‘St John’s curriculum’. More information |
| Outside the Box 7-9 Inspirational Ideas | This photocopiable book is full ofinnovative, user friendly, excitingand unusual activities that promotecreative thinking and problem solvingskills for 7-9 year olds. More information |
| Outside the Box 9-11 | This photocopiable book is full ofinnovative, user friendly, excitingand unusual activities that promotecreative thinking and problem solvingskills in upper KS2. More information |
| Pirates and Piracy | A fun and very relevant Bloom's unit that not only investigates pirates of old, but also gives students an opportunity for class thinking and discussion on piracy today – the moral issues of copying videos, DVDs and copyright. Also included are maths and science sections on ‘Floating & Sinking’ and ‘Co-ordinates & Mapping’. More information |
| Radical Encouragement: Creating Communities For Learning | Radical Encouragement is an approach to developing dispositions, skills and strategies for better thinking and learning More information |
| Reaching Out to All Thinkers | This booklet is designed to function in two ways: as an aide-memoire for those who are already familiar with the world of thinking skills, and as a simple overview for those to whom thinking skills is a new area. More information |
| Same Different Fairy Tales Book | Students work in pairs or in teams on opposite sides of a barrier to discover what is the same and what is different in carefully designed pictures. More information |
| Socratic Circles | This book introduces a method for organising exploratory talk that will appeal to teachers who value classroom dialogue and can see the benefits that good dialogue can bring. More information |
| Start Thinking | Start Thinking will bring enjoyment, creativity and challenge to your classroom and improve the thinking skills of your pupils. More information |
| Still Learning to Think- Thinking to Learn | Building on the popular Learning to Think-Thinking to Learn More information |
| Storywise | Storywise is a fascinating resource that harnesses the power of familiar stories to open up a space for children's thinking More information |
| Supporting Creativity and Imagination in the Early Years | This book draws on the author's experience of promoting young children's creativity and imagination in a variety of settings over the last twenty years More information |
| Talking Pictures | This exciting pack of materials provides teachers with effective methods for guiding pupils to analyse photographic images, discuss aesthetic issues, and make photographs of their own after thoughtful planning. More information |
| Teaching Complex Thinking | This book explains the notion of complex thinking and provides a range of structures and strategies that will enable and encourage students to be better thinkers. More information |
| Teaching for Better Thinking | This book focuses on what philosophy can offer children and their teachers More information |
| Teaching Literacy: The Creative Approach | How literacy can be combined with, and promoted through, a love of reading and children's ability to think and write creatively More information |
| Teaching Thinking : Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom | This fully updated third edition is a sourcebook of ideas to help teachers and students engage in philosophical enquiry with children More information |
| Teaching Thinking and Creativity Archive CD | The entire archives of articles from 20 editions of Teaching Thinking and Creativity magazine is available on CD! More information |
| Teaching Thinking Pocketbook | A troubleshooting approach takes five types of thinking that students typically struggle with. Each tool is explained and exemplified with instructions and teaching tips for classroom use. More information |
| The Philosophy Club | The Philosophy Club is an exciting resource to stimulate young people aged 10 and upwards with photocopiable dialogues, games, thinking activities and many other starting points for philosophical enquiry More information |
| The Teacher's Toolkit | A book full of useful classroom strategies to make teaching and learning more lively More information |
| The Thinking Team | In Thinking Teams the students work through specific tasksfor each topic using a set process to achieve a solution. More information |
| Thinking Hats | World renowned Edward De Bono’s concept of ‘Thinking Hats’ hasproven itself to be an excellent way to ensure that students consider problems and issues from different perspectives;‘actively thinking’. More information |
| Thinking Skills & Eye Q | A great compendium of visual tools – tables, charts and maps - for learning More information |
| Thinking Skills and Problem-Solving | Discover and develop your pupils' strengths across the multiple intelligences by improving their problem-solving skills. More information |
| Thinking Skills Through Science | This book is a good introduction to strategies for thinking and learning skills in science More information |
| Thinking Strategies for the Successful Classroom | This book provides activities to enrich and extend the thinking strategies of the entire class, with in-built opportunities to challenge the skills of the highest achievers. More information |
| Thinking Through English | This book is written by teachers of English. It applies strategies for teaching thinking to the teaching of English. The strategies encourage classroom dialogue, collaborative learning and methodical thinking that links to other subjects. More information |
| Thinking Through Geography | A photocopiable resource to teachers create exciting and memorable lessons More information |
| Thinking Through History | When teachers use this resource, the history curriculum becomes a vehicle for the teaching of thinking skills More information |
| Thinking Through History: Britain 1066-1500 | This series has collections of games and simulations for a active approach to history More information |
| Thinking Through Mathematics | Thinking Through Mathematics for secondary schools provides teachers of mathematics with a number of thinking skills activities, which develop both generic thinking strategies and more specialised mathematical thinking. More information |
| Thinking Through Modern Foreign Languages | This book helps language teachers to improve their practice, make lessons more exciting and challenging More information |
| Thinking Through Philosophy Series | These books encourage information handling, reasoning, creative thinking and evaluation, all of which are of great importance in the learning process. More information |
| Thinking Through Primary Teaching | This book is an excellent starter for teachers who want to integrate thinking skills into their schemes of work More information |
| Thinking Through PSHE, Citizenship and Careers Education & Guidance | The project, which has won national recognition, was set up to work with students across the whole ability range from the most able to the most disaffected and disengaged. More information |
| Thinking Through Religious Education | This book provides many excellent examples of how strategies for developing thinking skills can enliven religious education in schools More information |
| Thinking Through School- Evaluation Pack | Thinking Through School is a uniqueproject for Year 7 pupils that aimsto enhance the overall learningexperience of pupils and providethem with transferable skills usefulfor life. More information |
| Thinking Through the Curriculum | A good introduction to the tradition of thinking skills with applications of thinking-skills approaches from across the curriculum and from a variety of key stages. More information |
| Thinking Together Philosophical Inquiry for the Classroom | Thinking Together shows how children's literature and other materials can be used to help children raise puzzles and problems that will encourage them to think. More information |
| Thinking Together: A Programme of Activities | A programme of activities for developing speaking, listening and thinking skills for children aged 8-11. A key element of the Thinking Together approach is exploratory talk, which can help children improve their critical thinking and reasoning. More information |
| Thinking With Ava and Grandpa | The ‘Thinking with Ava and Grandpa’ series is a set of 6different full colour illustrated stories for infant classes not only to entertain, but also to develop thinking and social/emotional intelligence. More information |
| Thinking With English | A practical thinking resource for Key Stages 2 & 3 More information |
| Thinking With Rich Concepts | Provocative topics that really make students use all the thinking tools and strategies at their command. Rich Concepts include: Happiness; Choice; Ownership; Identity; and 10 more that lead students into thoughtful, guided discussion. More information |
| Thinking, Talking, Exploring! | At least 20 statements on each topic are given, which can easily be cut apart and handed out for pairs or groups of students to discuss and then organise under the headings ‘True’, ‘Need More Info’, or ‘False’. More information |
| Thinking, Talking, Exploring! | At least 20 statements on each topic are given, which can easily be cut apart and handed out for pairs or groups of students to discuss and then organise under the headings ‘True’, ‘Need More Info’, or ‘False’. More information |
| Top Ten Thinking Tactics | Best-selling programme for getting young children to become active learners More information |
| Visual Thinking | Free yourself from the limiting belief that you can’t draw and move into the world of visible thinking. More information |
| Where Thinking and Learning Meet | In Where Thinking and Learning Meet, Lane Clark challenges our individual and systemic educational beliefs and practices. More information |
| Words and Minds: How We Use Language to Think Together | Words and Minds takes a lively look at the usefulness of 'interthinking' - talking with other people to get something done More information |
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