The
logo of NCTT represents the basic idea of infusing instruction
in critical and creative thinking skills into standard content
instruction. The activity implied by the use of arrows is
the intellectual activity of educators whose expertise in
the classroom goes into designing and teaching good infusion
lessons. And, indeed, that is the theme of the kind of staff-development
provided by NCTT. We do not have a package of materials
to sell, designed by others, and our staff development does
not involve training teachers to use such materials, like
so many other staff development programs do. Rather, we
put our faith and trust in teachers. We train teachers to
use their best abilities to design their own lessons for
use in their own classrooms with their students. No one
has better expertise in doing this than the teachers themselves.
It is our job to stimulate the activity of blending the
two arrows into an original, unified combination, an infusion
lesson, created by the active intelligence of the teachers
who will be teaching these lessons. We believe that our
nearly 20 years of experience doing this backs up staff-development
work of the highest quality.
This
logo is based on the cover design on one of the infusion
book series published by Critical Thinking Books and Software.