Thinking Tools
As you know, teaching others how to think is not a simple job. Thinking takes effort. Therefore, it needs to be taught overtly and explicitly, practised regularly, and recognised, encouraged and praised whenever it occurs. See the Rodin Education YouTube channel for free ‘how to’ videos of using thinking tools in the classroom.
Eric Frangenheim
About Eric
Eric Frangenheim
Educational Consultant And Author
With 47 years experience in education, Eric Frangenheim is a well-respected educational consultant, author and presenter in Australia and New Zealand. His passion is to promote thinking in learning.
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Education consultant Eric Frangeheim has created a short video conversation with world-renowned education consultant, Karen Boyes speaking at the recent Teachers Matter Online Summit. We invite you to visit this post to listen in about Eric’s ...
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I can try out my ideas on other people’s children before trying these ideas on mine. (and they send them home after school!)I can be myself in the classroom.I can experiment with unusual ideas to engage and excite all my students.I can be assured ...
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There is something to be said for playing a sport. Any type of sport as this teaches you that it is ok to be competitive but also how to lose graciously. This appears to have been lost in the world that we live in.
Recently on our twelve-day Ovation...
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As the 2018 school year kicks off, I have been enjoying consulting to many industrious schools in South East Queensland. I spent last week facilitating a series of pre-service teacher training workshops. It’s wonderful to experience the renewed ene...
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TEACHING TIP: HOW TO CREATE YOUR THINKING CLASSROOM (WITH THE ‘EXPERT-FREE ZONE’):
Teachers often tell me they find it difficult to engage all students in their classes. I agree – it’s tricky to encourage all students (whether...
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When we watch a film, read a book or go to a play, invariably something happens in the first 60-90 seconds to set the scene, create tension, expose a problem or state a purpose. In short, we are ‘hooked in’, we are invested, we want to know more....
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Education consultant Eric Frangeheim has created a short video conversation with world-renowned education consultant, Karen Boyes speaking at the recent Teachers Matter Online Summit. We invite you to visit this post to listen in about Eric’s ...
Read More
I can try out my ideas on other people’s children before trying these ideas on mine. (and they send them home after school!)I can be myself in the classroom.I can experiment with unusual ideas to engage and excite all my students.I can be assured ...
Read More
There is something to be said for playing a sport. Any type of sport as this teaches you that it is ok to be competitive but also how to lose graciously. This appears to have been lost in the world that we live in.
Recently on our twelve-day Ovation...
Read More
Testimonials
At Rodin Educational Consultancy, we understand how challenging it can be when teaching critical, creative and co-operative thinking skills and tools/strategies to students/learners. No one would argue that thinking doesn’t require a degree of effort and therefore a plan, which can be flexible and needs to be formulated well in advance. This is where Eric Frangenheim, a respected educational consultant with nearly 50 years of classroom and consulting experience, can help you.
When you are teaching differentiated learning or differentiated teaching strategies, you need to ensure that you gain and develop student engagement. Encouraging classroom critical, creative and co-operative thinking need to be taught overtly, regularly practised and clearly acknowledged. Using Eric’s Thinking Skills Framework, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain, teachers can efficiently design questions and activities, all supported or scaffolded with appropriate cognitive or co-operative thinking tools.
Eric is a vastly experienced author and presenter, well-known and respected in both Australia and New Zealand. As an educational consultant, he has devised numerous cognitive and co-operative thinking skills and tools. He wishes to challenge himself as well as being an advocate of thinking during learning. His objective is to create an environment using Bloom’s cognitive taxonomy.
Regardless of whether you are a teacher or looking for self-help materials, Eric’s easy to use books and digital resources are engaging and explain many aspects of co-operative thinking and differentiated learning. He is passionate when it comes to helping educators, business leaders or parents gain greater student or learner engagement. These resources give you the confidence to develop your own differentiated teaching strategies and gain student engagement in the learning environment that you desire.
If you would like more information about critical thinking strategies and how to promote classroom critical thinking or creative thinking strategies, you can contact Eric by email on [email protected] or alternatively, you can contact us directly via our website. Eric looks forward to hearing from you and providing you with all the help you need to promote critical creative and co-operative teaching and learning in your educational environment.