Teachers Professional Development

Recent Teacher Profession Development –

Creating Better Thinkers

Last week all of the St Luke’s teaching staff attended a workshop on Critical and Creative Thinking, presented by ITC Publications, a Queensland-based education consultancy.

The emphasis of the session was on establishing a common Thinking Skills Framework for our school and workshopping a wide range of thinking tools that we can use to develop the critical, creative and cooperative thinking capacities of our students.

The benefits of a common whole-school approach to thinking are that our students will have a common understanding of terms such as ‘analyse, ‘evaluate and ‘critical thinking’ and as a team, we can better track the thinking skills being taught throughout the school. The acquisition of these critical, creative and cooperative thinking tools will not only deliver better academic outcomes - it will also equip our students with an attitude towards life-long learning that will assist them in better decision making and problem solving.

We look forward to seeing these ideas reflected in your sons’ and daughters’ work during the year.