Two pre-conference tutorials will take place on Fri morning, 21 Sept, from 0900 to 1200.

Tutorial 1. How does it feel to be a learner in the thinking classroom? Room "Venta".

Tutorial 2. ACTS: How to recognize moments of thinking and make choices about how to progress them. Room "Abava".

The fee for each tutorial is EUR 60 per person (EUR 50 if there are three or more participants from one organisation). It is possible to attend the tutorials without participation in the conference. The number of places for each tutorial is limited, so first-come, first-served policy will be applied. If you would like to attend one of the tutorials, please fill in the registration form.

Tutorial 1.  How does it feel to be a learner in the thinking classroom? (register for the tutorial)

The Thinking Approach helps the teacher embed systematic development of thinking skills into the learning process. Thinking-based learning can increase motivation of both the teacher and the learners and make the classroom experience truly fascinating. However, we all know that no approach is perfect for everyone. This workshop will put you into the learner's shoes in the Thinking Approach classroom, so that you can experience what the learner feels and how the process might look like. We will try to become more competent in the subject that is not related to school curriculum in any country but is part of a routine for an increasingly large number of people. And even if you decide that the Thinking Approach is not for you as a teacher, I am sure you will get something useful as a learner.

The tutorial will be facilitated by Dr. Alexander Sokol, academic director of TA Group, Latvia

Tutorial 2.ACTS: How to recognize moments of thinking and make choices about how to progress them. (register for the tutorial)

ACTS is The Assessment Companion for Thinking Skills. Created by a partnership of schools and universities across Finland, the UK and Latvia, ACTS aims to help teachers who are interested in recognizing thinking and supporting the progress their students are making.
The tutorial will introduce you to some of the ‘illustrations’ created in classrooms in the first phase of the project by the UK ACTS partners.
You will have a chance to deeply examine some moments of thinking, interpreting these through different lenses to look at the classroom climate, the language of reasoning or the steps towards solutions to a problem. You will be prompted to make choices about how to progress thinking and have a chance to compare those to the outcomes of the choices made in the classroom at the time.

The tutorial will be facilitated by Sarah Seleznyov and Stuart Twiss, Let's Think Forum, UK