Effective Thinking in Schools

I design and teach programs that develop students ability to think and communicate. In critical thinking, students learn how to deliberate and argue - with integrity.

No sophistry or emotional manipulation allowed. If an argument can’t be made without appealing to someone’s emotions, it can’t be made at all. Students learn how to recognise relevance and significant reasoning, the role of facts in arguments, and identifying fallacies and errors.

Students also develop values of inquiry: curiosity, intellectual humility, and rigour. Metacognition - their thinking about their own thought processes - is a crucial component of this.