Announcing the 21ST ANNUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012 THINKING–BASED LEARNING

TWO WEEK-LONG COURSES
July 9 - 14, 2012
July 16 - 20, 2012

Announcing the NCTT 2012 FEBRUARY SEMINARS
Thinking-Based Learning as the Cornerstone of 21st Century Classrooms

February 27 – 29 and March 1st and 2nd, 2012

NCTT SPECIAL REPORT: THE IMPACT OF THINKING-BASED LEARNING ON STUDENT WRITING

Two significant and independent research projects in New Zealand and in Saudi Arabia have shown dramatic improvement in student writing based on the use of techniques developed in her classroom by Rebecca Reagan, a retired Lubbock, Texas, teacher...Read More

The National Center for Teaching Thinking Provides Workshops, Staff Development Programs, and Resources for Schools Worldwide

We would like to welcome you to the web site 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.

Notes from The Director, Robert Swartz

June 2011

I am writing this from Malaysia where I am working with a group of faculty from Sultan Idris University, one of the big teacher training universities in Malaysia. Here I am doing a two-week program with a team of 20 university faculty who will be the TBL steering committee at this univeristy to help establish a gradúate program on critical anjd creative thinking for teachers offering a master’s degree and to revise the undergraduate program in education to make it revolve around TBL. These are big changes that will not happen overnight but we are all optimistic that, with the Dean’s suppot here, this university will become the major center for TBL in Malaysia. Read more...