Learn how we can help you plan affordable professional learning facilitated by our experienced team. TC² draws from wide ranging themes to provide engaging face-to-face and online sessions. In consultation with our clients, we custom develop focused and enticing sessions around a theme to meet individual Partner needs, and grade level and subject area requirements. For example, a workshop for junior high teachers on student engagement might be framed as “Inspired learning: Developing tasks students really want to do!” or “Using pop culture as a spring board to critical inquiry.” Here is a sampling of the themes we can address in single offerings or as part of a broader program.
Foundations of a thinking classroom
- Creating a thinking classroom I: Embedding thinking
- Creating a thinking classroom II: Teaching the tools
- Creating a thinking classroom III: Assessing for thinking
- Creating a thinking classroom III: Nurturing a community of thinkers
- Developing critical challenges
- Classroom questioning techniques
21st century learning
- Engaging students
- Sustaining inquiry
- Inquiry in a digitally-enhanced environment
- Nurturing self-regulated learners
- Creating assessment-rich classrooms
- Nurturing creativity
- Competency-focused teaching
- Critical inquiry and social responsibility
- Differentiating instruction and assessment for thinking
Critical, creative and collaborative (C3) thinking in areas of study
- Teaching historical thinking
- Teaching geographical thinking
- C3 thinking in science
- C3 thinking in mathematics
- C3 thinking in the humanities
- C3 thinking in the studio, gym or shop
Using TC² resources to support thinking
- Using Tools for Thought
- Using Thoughtbooks to sustain inquiry
- A realistic approach to using source documents
- Using multiple perspectives to teach history
- Investigating images
- Implementing the Our Hidden Heroes program
- Using images and realistic fiction as information sources
- Learning about Inquiry-pacs
Educational leadership
- Leading for thinking classrooms
- Leading effective professional learning
- The core principles of 21st century learning
