NCTT actively promotes instruction in schools and colleges that helps to develop students' thinking skills, intellectual habits of mind, and sensitivity to the need for good thinking on the job, in professional work, and in the course of our everyday lives. This is accomplished by an active program in which we work with and provide resources for educators at all levels using well-researched techniques for staff-development. NCTT conducts such programs year round.

One important message that NCTT-trained educators bring to their students is that they can become quality thinkers no matter what their social, ethnic, or economic backgrounds are. Hence, NCTT works at every level of the educational spectrum.

During the academic year, NCTT offers open workshops and courses in various parts of the United States and abroad for K-12 educators and college faculty. It also offers contracted, custom-designed, on-site staff development programs for specific schools and colleges. These staff-development programs are usually extended programs involving a combination of group workshops and on-site, one-to-one coaching for implementation of the idea presented at the workshops. When such programs are offered abroad NCTT usually teams up with local agencies to plan, develop, advertise, and administer them.

NCTT also offers an international Summer Institute of courses on teaching and assessing thinking during the month of July at various sites around the USA. Graduate credits are available for these courses. This Institute ranges in length from one to three weeks and is designed for both a local and residential audience from around the world. From time to time, and in conjunction with local educational agencies, NCTT offers its summer institute in other countries and at other times.

If you are interested in mounting programs such as these please contact us. The Director of NCTT, Dr. Robert Swartz, and the NCTT staff are available to help to custom design such programs in both the USA and abroad.