Transforming classrooms and schools to make thinking the basis of instruction and of deep learning

I have been working with teachers and schools for over 40 years to help them transform their classrooms world-wide by moving away from lecture and textbook-based instruction to a more active learning teaching base.

The teaching base is infusing instruction in skillful thinking directly into content instruction.

I call this Thinking-Based Learning. I have worked through the Center for Teaching Thinking, an organization that I created in 1992 in the USA, which now has its international offices in Madrid, Spain.

And over these years I have developed and refined TBL to where it has had — and continues to have — spectacular results.

In this conference,I want to describe TBL by looking into some of these classrooms and showing how it accomplishes some of its great learning power.