Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities
Training
The Partnership Management Board (PMB), (a strategic planning group representing a range of educational partners), was formed to plan for the coherent and effective implementation of the revised curriculum. Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities was identified as one of the areas of curriculum change that are common to primary and post-primary implementation of the revised curriculum (hence the term cross-phase). This cross phase emphasis ensures that the same key messages and skills are promoted at both primary and post-primary level to enhance coherence, continuity and progression.
Working groups within PMB produced a programme of professional development to support trainers, senior management, and teachers with these areas of curriculum change.
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Guidance Booklet
This booklet for schools aims to develop an understanding of Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities (TSPCs) as well as identifying practical strategies to help promote TSPCs in the classroom. It also contains information on how to plan effectively for the development and progression of TSPCs throughout the curriculum.
Download Guidance Booklet for Key Stages 1 and 2 PDF, 547 KB
Download Guidance Booklet for Key Stage 3 PDF, 498 KB
CPD Training Units
The following PowerPoint presentations should be used to deliver the first phase of Revised Curriculum training to members of your team. Notes for the training facilitator are included in the 'Notes' page of the PowerPoint. The Activity and Resource sheets are included in a separate document.
Unit 1 Rationale and Overview
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Unit 2: Planning for Infusion
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Unit 3: Expanding your Pedagogical Repertoire
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Unit 4: Encouraging Creativity
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Unit 5: Making Thinking Explicit: Thinking Frames for Classroom Delivery
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Unit 6: Metacognition: Thinking about Thinking and Learning
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Delivery Materials for CPD Units
This document includes all the Activity and Resource Sheets for all the Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities CPD Units.
Download Activity Sheets PDF, 199 KB
Posters (A3)
A set of 8 posters to reinforce the Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities CPD Units.
Download Posters PDF, 288 KB