How young people of all ages and abilities can come to appreciate their thinking capacity.

An introduction to David Hyerle's Thinking Maps.

This practical workshop will discuss differentiation and the need to provide stretch and challenge for learners through asking powerful questions. It will help you ensure that learners think at a higher and a deeper level. 

An introduction to Community of Enquiry.

An introduction to an approach to learning and teaching that supports and develops thinking and creativity.

An introduction to an approach to learning and teaching that supports and develops thinking and creativity.

 An Introduction to Habits of Mind.

Developing Higher Order Thinking through effective Questioning.

This practical workshop will discuss differentiation and the need to provide stretch and challenge for learners in History. It will help you ensure that learners think at a higher and a deeper level. 

This practical workshop will discuss what makes teaching and learning effective. It will help you ensure that learners think and operate at a higher and a deeper level. 

Dates to be confirmed.

During the course of the day we will look at how to empower learners so that they achieve the best possible outcomes, the importance of pupil voice and effective strategies for both assessment for learning and learning to learn. 

How using Hyerle's Maps engages children and develops their literacy skills across the curriculum.

This two day practical workshop will discuss what is meant by the Thinking Classroom and how the development of thinking and creative strategies helps reverse underachievement in the classroom.

Habits of Mind are those intelligent behaviours that we associate with all successful people from a range of backgrounds.

 This course is approved by the Centre for Cognitive Education at the University of Exeter.

Dates to be confirmed.

Join professors Guy Claxton, Mick Waters, Bob Burden and Dr David Hyerle at the major national thinking skills conference in the UK. 36 practical workshops based on the work of schools working with the Centre for Cognitive Education at the University of Exeter.

PLTS explored, explained and applied.

This practical workshop will discuss differentiation and the need to provide stretch and challenge for those learners identified as having gifted academic abilities. It will help you ensure that learners think at a higher and a deeper level. 

This interactive and fun session will provide a number of different and practical ideas of how to start your lessons with great thinking activities. A range of approaches willbe explored including Thinkers Keys and Bottoms!
 

People with higher Emotional Intelligence tend to be more successful in life. This workshop looks at strategies and techniques to develop emotional intelligence – and independent learners – in the classroom, building on the work in which good teachers are already engaged.

Just what is it that outstanding teachers do to engage and stimulate their students’ thinking?

Dates to be confirmed.

Kestrel Education is the only organisation in the UK accredited and permitted to deliver Thinking Maps training.
 
The 'gold standard' Thinking Maps training that Kestrel offers is a two day Training the Trainers course to all teachers interested in training their colleagues.
 

Dates to be confirmed.

Share ideas, experiences and resources with like-minded teachers.

An opportunity to explore how Drama engages students in thinking at higher levels.

This workshop will focus on the art of Thunking as pioneered by Ian Gilbert and championed as part of the P4C approach.

Practical strategies for incorporating thinking skills in to lessons throughout the curriculum.