THE SMART KIDS TRAINING PROGRAMME
Smart Kids will help you to train the inventors, critical thinkers, problem-solvers and innovators of the future and give your pupils the confidence, creativity and thinking skills they need for success!
Thinking Skills is a 5-level course which aims to develop children’s thinking skills through the use of enjoyable and challenging learning experiences, constructed around pupils’ interests, learning styles and preferred modes of expression. The course encourages children to develop problem-solving skills, logical reasoning, organising skills, and critical and analytical thinking skills, whilst improving their attention span and concentration.
Thinking Skills is a flexible resource which can be used alongside pupils’ existing academic work.
The books include:
- pattern activities
- logic problems
- analogy activities
- classifying and sorting activities
- situational analysis activities
- lesson specific materials
Components:
- Pupil’s Book
- Teacher’s Book
- Interactive Teaching Software
Creativity is a 6-level course which encourages pupils to be creative and come up with ‘out-the-box’ ideas. Mistakes are welcome as part of the creative process and no answer is a wrong answer. Creative classroom resources such as storytelling games are used to boost curiosity, imagination and communication skills, whilst construction games teach engineering, maths, problem-solving and geometry in a fun way. As well as encouraging productivity, the books in this series will give pupils a sense of confidence and pride in their accomplishments.
Creativity is a flexible resource which can be used alongside pupils’ existing academic work. academic work.
The books include:
- brainstorming activities
- drawing activities
- What if…? activities
- free-association activities
- storytelling activities
- construction games
Components:
- Pupil’s Book
- Teacher’s Book
- Interactive Teaching Software
Visual Perception is a 6-level course which aims to develop children’s visual perceptual skills, visual motor skills and fine motor skills through the use of enjoyable and challenging learning experiences. Visual perceptual skills are used in reading, writing, maths, science and social studies, and good visual perceptual skills help children learn to read and write, follow a map or navigate their way around a new city, organise maths problems, learn size, shape and volume of objects, improve focus and concentration, retain information and develop their attention to detail.
Visual Perception is a flexible resource which can be used alongside pupils’ existing academic work.
The books include:
- tangrams
- figure-ground separation activities, showing the ability to focus on an important part of a whole
- visual completion activities, showing recognition of an object even though it is not complete
- figure location activities, detecting the spatial position of an object relative to its surroundings
- three-dimensional thinking activities
- grouping, classifying, comparing and separating objects
- finding hidden objects
Components:
- Pupil’s Book
- Teacher’s Book
- Interactive Teaching Software