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WE’VE BEEN HELPING SCHOOLS SINCE 2009 to offer a genuinely life-changing cognitive experience to their students. All our resources are designed around authentic critical thinking, and can be used by any educator, regardless of their subject or programme.
In a recent member survey, 93% said our resources save them time planning and teaching, 97% said they improve students’ understanding of the course, and 86% felt that TOK essay performance was raised. Below are a few more comments from our members. Read more on our testimonials page.
THREE DIFFERENT PATHWAYS FOR TOK. Choose from three classroom-ready courses for TOK. Lessons are beautifully designed, framed by clear learning objectives, packed full of media-rich resources, and driven by the latest events and issues. They’re ready for the classroom, so they’ll save you huge amounts of time! They can be augmented by our mini-lessons below…
MONTHLY MINI-LESSONS FOR YOUR WHOLE FACULTY Members receive 20 new senior mini-lessons every month. Choose either our TOK and non-TOK versions, so no matter what educational programme you teach, you can promote authentic critical thinking in your school. We strongly believe that TOK should not be limited to IB students – which you can learn more about below…
CRITICAL THINKING FOR ALL STUDENTS Our mission is to help all learners become courageous, objective, and open-minded knowers. Alongside our TOK resources, we offer resources for non-TOK seniors, middle students, and primary pupils. They will create stand-out university candidates.
LIVE & RECORDED EVENTS We run regular live events, all of which are recorded, and available as downloadable debriefs. Click on the images above to take you to some of the most popular webinars we’ve delivered.
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Keep in touch with us, and see our latest events and developments, via LinkedIn and Padlet. We produce short videos about TOK and critical thinking, and run regularly free webinars, all of which we post to our YouTube channel here.
Our YouTube page offers a treasure trove of content, including our 3-minute TOK explainers, guides to the exhibition and essay, how to integrate TOK with the DP, and advice on how the course can help you get into university. We regularly upload new videos, so make sure you subscribe to our channel!
CRITICAL THINKING RESOURCES FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS We offer a wide range of resources for students to develop their critical thinking abilities in lower and middle school, and hit the ground running when they begin the IB Diploma. As with our resources for older students, they’re driven by real-world events, and invite students to apply their learning to authentic contexts, not hypothetical situations.
AUTHENTIC CRITICAL THINKING As educators, we talk a lot about critical thinking. The problem is, we all have a slightly different definition of what it involves, making it difficult for us to work together to develop the right skills, and hard for students to evaluate their cognitive progress.
We’ve come up with a clear, practicable, and measurable definition of critical thinking, which we prefer to term ‘authentic’ critical thinking (ACT), to reflect our belief it should (only) happen within real-world situations. ACT underpins everything we design, for both our TOK and non-TOK resources. Watch the 90-second video to find out more!
