Strategic Play for Future Success
ThinkTank Education UK is an innovative critical thinking, social and emotional skills programme. The curricula is tailored to be compliment with the UK education system and the 21st century needs of its pupils.
Our methodology pillars of Metcognition, Mediated Focused Inquiry & Interdisciplinary Transferral are used alongside strategy-based board games from around the world.
Using these games, group based work, reflection and ‘think on your feet‘ experiences particular thinking processes are targeted, and thinking habits, thinking methods and thinking concepts are habitualised – all whilst having fun!
The ThinkTank Programme
The ThinkTank Programme is a system for the development and training of children’s thinking abilities and life skills. At its heart is the notion that the most effective way to learn is through a challenging, immediate and authentic experience.
Game playing is the perfect example of such an experience – it is entertaining, engaging and exciting, and therefore stimulates eager involvement. The game-playing experience provides fertile ground for the training and application of thinking abilities and life skills.
ThinkTank is strategic play for future success.
The children learn to:
• Think critically and creatively
• Self-reflect, analyses and evaluate
• Forward plan and optimise decision making
• Use their initiative and problem solve
• Vocalise and text hypotheses and their ideas
• Communicate, and work effectively with others
The programme provides:
• An age appropriate well-structured curricula
• Mediated experiential learning
• Metacognitive methodology
• Discussion based focused enquiry
• Enhanced non-verbal reasoning outcomes
• Hypothesis testing
• Thinking methods ‘tool-kit’
• Pair work and group challenges
• Individualised learning
Interpersonal Skills
• Discussion-based Focus Enquiry
• Mediated Experiential Learning
• Testing Hypotheses
Thinking Skills
• Age Appropriate Curricula
• Enhancing Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication
• Metacognitive Methodology
Intrapersonal Skills
• Thinking Methods “Tool-kit”
• Pair Work & Group Challenges
• Individualised Learning
How Do You Know?
Having a questioning attitude.
Knowing what data you need and developing questioning strategies to produce that data.
Finding problems to solve.
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