Our pre-DP ‘Thinking for Yourself’ course supports 14-15 year old students to develop critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration, and navigate the online and real worlds more effectively.
14 classroom-ready lessons introduce students to brilliant thinkers, help them acclimatize to higher-level learning, and provide a empowering lexicon of terms and ideas.
Thinking for Yourself 2026-27: sample lessons
The Thinking for Yourself lessons are extensively interlinked, but each one works as stand-alone learning experience. Deliver them as a discrete course, or deploy them within different subject classrooms.
Access to the course is for members of the site only, but the padlet below provides you with 2 sample lessons from the course. Follow this link to take you to our membership sign-up page, and join us in seconds.
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