About the Course:
Thinking Tools prepare learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
meaning they are able to reason, think analytical, solve problems and
generate new ideas. It crack teaching and learning myths that led to learners
being knowledge duplicators instead of being knowledge creators.When employing thinking tools, learners become thinking engineers – taking ownership of what they must discover, create or solve. Within this paradigm of teaching, teachers directly engage with learners’ brains, which goes beyond learner-centred teaching and defining learning as visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.
Thinking Tools aims to destruct traditional dinosaur teaching practices such as:
- Starting lessons with learning objectives
- Memorizing textbooks
- Using worksheets
- Believing in knowledge transfer
- Believing you can teach a class
- Teaching learners according to their auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning styles
- Teacher: Magdaleen Arlow
Dr Cas
Olivier - "The Thinking Tools approach is the first structural change in education the last 300 years."
Dr Olivier was a biology teacher and head of department, training adviser at the
University of Pretoria, research coordination with the National Training
Board and a training adviser with the Department of Labour.
He
is a specialist on the thinking brain. In his work, he
demonstrates how twenty-eight inborn thinking tools are integrated and
holistically employed in thinking processes.This approach provides
learners with thinking roadmaps to gear them towards developmental
mindsets.He provides online contact sessions to teachers, parents and
learners, as well as businesses and entrepreneurs.
He is also the author of The DNA of Great Teachers and a co-author of
Critical Thinking: A Multi-Dimensional approach in the Context of South
Africa edited by Professor Mary Grosser
About the Course:
Thinking Tools prepare learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
meaning they are able to reason, think analytical, solve problems and
generate new ideas. It crack teaching and learning myths that led to learners
being knowledge duplicators instead of being knowledge creators.When employing thinking tools, learners become thinking engineers – taking ownership of what they must discover, create or solve. Within this paradigm of teaching, teachers directly engage with learners’ brains, which goes beyond learner-centred teaching and defining learning as visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.
Thinking Tools aims to destruct traditional dinosaur teaching practices such as:
- Starting lessons with learning objectives
- Memorizing textbooks
- Using worksheets
- Believing in knowledge transfer
- Believing you can teach a class
- Teaching learners according to their auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning styles
- Teacher: Magdaleen Arlow
Dr Cas
Olivier - "The Thinking Tools approach is the first structural change in education the last 300 years."
Dr Olivier was a biology teacher and head of department, training adviser at the
University of Pretoria, research coordination with the National Training
Board and a training adviser with the department of labour.
He is a specialist on the thinking brain. In his work, he
demonstrates how twenty-eight inborn thinking tools are integrated and
holistically employed in thinking processes.This approach provides learners with thinking roadmaps to gear them towards developmental mindsets.He provides online contact sessions to teachers, parents and learners, as well as businesses and entrepreneurs.
He is also the author of The DNA of Great Teachers and a co-author of
Critical Thinking: A Multi-Dimensional approach in the Context of South
Africa edited by Professor Mary Grosser