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Most Popular Articles

A Paediatric Neurologist Speaks Using the science of the brain to understand how children learn
Lessons in Learning to Learn Should we be teaching children how to learn as well as what to learn? Well, duh! as the children say. Here's some ideas from what Jackie Beere has been doing at her secondary school for the past few years
What If...? A well received article first published by SHA earlier in 2004 by Ian Gilbert and an exercise in how to write an article without actually writing an article...

New Articles

SEAL - the glue that will cement together your new curriculum with real personalised learning
Jackie Beere has been at the forefront both of the pioneering work on personalised learning but also on SEAL in the secondary school. Here is her take on how the two go so well together...

Doodle Day
The power of doodling in lessons - as told to us by an art teacher in an inner city school

Are You Dropping the Baton - Foreword
Ian Gilbert's fascinating foreword to Dave Harris' new book on transition

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Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom Creative Learning Strategies for Ages 11s to 18s
The Learning Revolution This book is an inspiring synthesis of theory and practical techniques.
Super-Teaching If you only buy one book in order to improve what goes on in your classroom then let it be this one.

Associates

Great speakers, innovators, practitioners, nice people.

We seem to attract the right sort of people to Independent Thinking without going out looking. And here they are in alphabetical order.

See what you think - and if you want to make contact with any of them directly to explore how they can help you just give us a call on 0709 239 9617 or drop us an e-mail at learn@independentthinking.co.uk.

You can even see some of them Live in Action! with our growing library of video clips. Click here for more details.

Mike Bailey
Changing lives through the Confidence Studio

Phil Beadle
Amazing teacher from TV's The Unteachables

Jackie Beere
Creating the Learning School

Tim Benton
Confident learners ready for the world of work

Mike Brearley
Emotional intelligence in the classroom and the staffroom and coaching for high performing schools

Simon Cooper-Hind
Break the rules to change the world

Andrew Curran
The plain truth about the learning brain and the neuroscience of emotional intelligence in the classroom

Julie Duckworth
Values Education to create the ideal climate for learning

Deborah Franklin
Helping youngsters getting to grips with having a social and sexually active life

Ian Gilbert
About Ian Gilbert, founder of Independent Thinking Ltd

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