ThinkPlus - Programme Overview

The ThinkPlus metacurriculum is structured as follows:

Discovery | Capability | Expertise | Extension

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Discovery

The school leadership explores and designs the specific approaches and strategic plan to implement a metacurriculum and infuse a culture of good thinking practice across the school over an agreed time period. Teachers and educators take the first steps towards understanding a metacurriculum: its goals, benefits, how it works and what is needed to make it a success.

Capability

Teachers and their students learn the language of thinking and tools to improve thinking effectiveness and creativity. They will develop new and different thought patterns and thinking language to shift, broaden and deepen individual and group perceptions.

Expertise

This is where we develop the transfer of what was learned in capability, by making an explicit connection between today and tomorrow in the learning. Links are created between the subject of thinking itself, and all the other subjects in the school. Students learn to integrate and apply their new learnable intelligence across their educational landscape, as well as their social settings and life in general.

Extension

Extension is the culmination of discover, capability and expertise. The school leadership team, teachers and students observe and review the programme in action, and assess research results to understand its impact. They create refinements and extend the learning across the school and into other schools. The programme spreads both deliberately and organically as its worth becomes clear.