What does a community of thinkers look like in an elementary classroom? How can it be both safe and challenging? In this session we examine subtle ways to shift your community of learners to a community of thinkers.

Audience: Elementary

Resources:

• The Critical Thinking Consortium TC2: Stories from the Classroom, The Thinking Classroom
• “My Favourite No” (video)
• Harvard’s Project Zero
• “Talk Box” concept: Thinking Together (book)
• “Enabling constraints” concept: Engaging Minds (book)
• KidsCanPress: Cynthia Nicolson Pratt