

12th - 17th May
2019
Marsalforn
(Malta)
Meta Learning and Thinking Skills
Programme
Day 1
Focus 1: Urgency for thinking about thinking in education and frameworks for thinking (Blooms taxonomy revised)
Day 2
Focus 2: The Higher Order Thinking classroom Introduction
The thinking classroom and self-steering for pupils
The HOT classroom: teaching for thinking: 4 frameworks for teaching (critical thinking, productive thinking, creative thinking, philosophical thinking)
Lesson preparation for teaching activity.
Day 3
Focus 3: Formative assessment & feedback for self-regulating learning for students (Bateson&Dilts)
Asking questions and chunking as methodology for deeper thinking.
Day 4
Focus 4: Creativity can be learned, how to teach creativity to learners?
Day 5
Focus 5: Wrap up and action plan to become a teacher in the Higher Order Thinking Classroom
Methodology:
Interactive lectures and training moments to practice thinking skills.
Study visit to the Edward de Bono Thinking Institute