Providing 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. |
Announcing NCTT's 2010 February Seminar
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CORRECTION: Please be aware that our original announcement indicated
incorrect dates for the February seminars. The correct dates are
February 15th - 19th, and February 22nd - 26th, 2010. We apologize
for any inconvenience this may have caused. The National Center for Teaching Thinking has now listed its February Seminars, to be held the weeks of the 15th of February, and the 22th of February. The first of these seminars is on classroom techniques used in teaching lessons that infuse instruction in thinking skills into content instruction; the second is on assessing skillful thinking. For more information visit our February Seminar Page.
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Notes from The Director - July 2009
I am writing this from Barcelona, Spain, where I am about to give a workshop on skillful thinking to a group of parents whose children attend Colegio Montserrtat, a school that I have worked with for close to two years on infusing critical and creative thinking into content instruction, enhanced by various habits of mind. This is what we now call Thinking–Based Learning, a rich concept that I, and four of my colleagues, developed in the book of the same name that was published in the spring of 2007. Colegio Montserrat is one of a cluster of schools in Spain, two more in Barcelona, two in Madrid, and three on the Canary Islands. They have all embraced thinking–based learning and I am delighted at the fine job they are doing implementing it. In many of the schools it has changed the character of the education that is provided across the whole curriculum and across all of the grade levels being taught (Colegio Montserrat is a pre–K – 12 school).
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Robert Swartz, Director of NCTT |
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