Thinking Skills & Personal Capabilities
Useful Links
Partnership Management Board Website
This website has a number of articles detailing TSPCs and the Activating Children’s Thinking Skills Project. These were originally published in the September 2006 issue of linked.
www.pmbni.org.uk - Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities
National Centre for Teaching Thinking USA
Includes articles and lesson plans on Infusion – “teaching thinking in the content areas”, based on the work of Robert Swartz. Follow links to Lessons for examples of a range of Infusion lessons for different age groups across different curricular areas.
www.nctt.net
Project Zero, Harvard University
It includes details about a large number and variety of research projects exploring thinking and learning in the arts, humanities and sciences. Follow links to uncover some useful information and examples, for example, follow Visible Thinking or Artful Thinking to find “Thinking Routines; establishing patterns of thinking in the classroom”.
www.pz.harvard.edu
Learning how to Learn
A Project of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme
This website brings together a number of project ideas and findings from the Teaching and Learning Research programme in the UK, relating to research about learning in classrooms, schools and networks.
www.learntolearn.ac.uk
Department for Education and Skills
This is the Thinking Skills website from the Department for Education and Skills. There is a history of thinking skills and a classification of thinking skills approaches (follow “Family Map”). An extensive list of programmes and strategies for each approach are outlined with appropriate references, links and examples.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/thinkingskills
Centre of Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University
This website outlines the curriculum development work done with primary and post-primary schools in developing Personal Capabilities through the curriculum. Their research, development and advice helped influence and shape the CCEA Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities Framework.
www.personalcapabilities.co.uk
CASE Network
Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education
This website looks at the history and development of the Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education programme based on the research of Shayer and Adey (King’s College, London). It outlines the central ideas, the research findings and give links to resources, publications and key contacts in the research and development team.
www.case-network.org