NCTT - The National Center for Teaching Thinking

Providing Workshops, Staff Development Programs, and Resources for Schools Worldwide

We would like to welcome you to the website of the National Center for Teaching Thinking (NCTT), a service organization for educators with business offices located in the state of Massachusetts in the USA. NCTT is dedicated to providing programs of excellence for K - 12 schools and colleges nation-wide, and around the world, on teaching and assessing skillful thinking, especially on teaching and assessing the skills of critical and creative thinking infused into standard content instruction. NCTT offers custom-designed long-term staff development programs, special courses, workshops, and a summer institute. Each of our programs, workshops, and our summer institutes draws upon a staff distinguished in the field from the USA and abroad.

Announcing Robert J. Swartz's new book

"Thinking-Based Learning: Activating Students' Potential."

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Notes from The Director - December 2007

It is now December, 2007, and I have been reflecting on the last two years of my work with The National Center for Teaching Thinking. The last time I wrote comments on the state of the art of teaching thinking I stressed how what I had observed through my work on teaching thinking had indicated a real broadening of interest internationally on the subject. Now, two years later, I am feeling the same. The International Conference on Thinking (ICOT) was held in 2007, this time in Norrkoping, Sweden, and it attracted, once again, over 1000 participants worldwide. In fact, it was sold out! And I and my colleagues at NCTT have been traveling so much that I am beginning to think of my home as a secluded retreat where I can go to relax every now and then. But I have noticed some trends, so I want to comment on these.