{"id":1300,"date":"2012-07-06T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:10:25","slug":"highlighted-article-michael-pohl-is-thinking-education-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/highlighted-article-michael-pohl-is-thinking-education-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighted Article: Michael Pohl is Thinking Education \u2026 Are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pohl \u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0 Thinking Education \u2026 Are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With more than twenty years classroom teaching experience behind him, Michael now runs training and development sessions for classroom teachers in thinking skills and also in how to best meet the learning needs of gifted students in inclusive classrooms. He has run over 1800 workshops on the teaching of thinking for teachers and Principals in China, Taiwan Saudi Arabia, Spain, Vienna, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and across both\u00a0 New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n

A former member of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, Michael regularly presents at local, national and international conferences on issues concerning giftedness, creativity and thinking.<\/p>\n

With a Masters Degree in Gifted Education and formal qualifications in Adult Training, Michael is the Director of Thinking Education, currently working with many schools in diverse contexts on an on-going basis, returning many times to work with teachers as as they create a culture of thinking in their classrooms. He has worked in complex secondary settings in inner metropolitan settings, to remote schools in outback Australia, with clusters of schools in Wellington NZ,\u00a0 to International schools across Asia and in Europe.<\/p>\n

Amongst his recent publications are books on the teaching of complex thinking, models and strategies for teaching and learning, inquiry-based instruction, another on a whole-school approach to the explicit teaching of thinking skills, books for the middle years of schooling and for teachers concerning the education of gifted students and numerous articles for national and international journals concerned with Gifted Education.<\/p>\n

All are available from the Thinking Education website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael currently has an on-going relationship with The Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur and the International European School in Taiwan and is due to revisit both in 2012.<\/p>\n

Should you be interested in having Michael work with your school, or present to a local or regional conference, please feel free to contact him via the website at http:\/\/www.thinking.education.com.au<\/a> or simply email at mpohl@thinkingeducation.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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