VOLUME 4 JANUARY 2013


The Next Chapter T


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he i-THINK project got off to a flying start with the development of 10


pilot schools across the nation. Early outcome from these 10 schools have been extremely encouraging.


Nick Symes, the Director of Overseas Operations, Thinking Schools International, UK in Volume 2 of HOTS gave an account of how he arrived in Malaysia in September, 2010, to carry out a needs survey of public schools in Malaysia and toured Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak visiting urban, rural, primary, secondary and vernacular schools. He returned to Malaysia in November, 2012 and writes his new observations.


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The next chapter is to expand the programme to 1,000 schools. Drive teams of 500 schools began training in November 2012. A Kestrel team of six from the UK was invited to observe and provide the role of resident expert for some of the training sessions organised across the country.


The sessions were led by teams that had attended earlier i-THINK training sessions and it was both welcoming and reassuring to see familiar


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faces and the ever present Malaysian smiling faces.


We found that the trainers were happy to accept the advice and support we offered and allowed us to work with them in a highly constructive way to try to recreate a thinking classroom within the training room.


A crucial outcome of the training sessions were to provide every opportunity to demonstrate that the interactive, student-centred approach can also work in the ordinary Malaysian classroom – and there is much evidence from the Malaysian pilot schools to support this.


The four- day training programme included: • The


Thinking School – setting the context


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