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CPD Conference : Closing the Gap
Make a step change and move from your reality to your vision.
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Thinking hats on…
Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats are increasingly used in schools to help students develop thinking skills. Kim Wells vouches for their effectiveness with learners of all ages. Article in Gifted & Talented UPDATE Issue 62 March 2009
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Knowledge is no substitute for thought.
Rose's new curriculum is out of date, what needs to be taught in schools is the lifelong skill of thinking
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2009 is officially The EU European Year of Creativity and Innovation…
The European Commission has acknowledged Creativity and Innovation are essential elements for the future success of Europe and its long-term economic competitiveness, are we sure our young people are able to compete in a creative and innovative workplace?
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Why is innovation and creativity important to the education of our young people in the UK?
A very significant number of our students will work in small to medium enterprise businesses. They are crucial to the UK’s economy. Businesses with under 250 employees account for 56% of the UK non-government jobs and 52% of turnover.
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Serious Creativity
…Children are very creative. Innocence can be creative. Ignorance can be creative. If you do not know the usual approach to a problem, you can more easily come up with a fresh approach…
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Cpd Leadership Performance Management and Impact Evaluation
Working with over 25,000 users across 100s of schools using blueskyeducation.co.uk we have developed a rich awareness of your needs and over the next year we will be sharing good practice providing you with tips and insights from practitioners.
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DR EDWARD DE BONO shares his thinking with delegates at the BlueSkySkills conference held at Whitgift School, Croydon.
Dr Edward de Bono, the world authority on teaching thinking, was the special guest speaker at our recent conference held at Whitgift School in Croydon.
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Edward de Bono on...confidence
Thinking should be confident. Any skill is better if it is done with confidence – be it skiing or playing tennis. There is, however, a big difference between being confident and being arrogant.
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Thinking Strategies: Frameworks for Thinking
There is a fundamental question that we rarely answer: ‘Are intelligent people capable of better thinking?’ The assumed answer is ‘yes’, because that is part of our definition of intelligence.
Edward De Bono’s Message
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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