How might we develop critical and design thinking skills in our boys at St Peter's?

The path to understanding is not always straight. Humans don't move from knowing nothing about something to knowing everything about it in a few easy steps. Instead there are many roads, detours, meanders, daydreams and frustrations.

In the Innovation and Design Center we aim to provide natural opportunities for boys to construct knowledge and develop skills interdependently through thinking, designing and making.

Boys WILL encounter real-world problems that stimulate curiosity and encourage creativity. They WILL be challenged at their level. Boys WILL probably fail many times but, they will be shown how to learn and grow from these mistakes! They WILL be assessed according to their knowledge, skill and value development.

Through the use of the Stanford d.School Design Thinking Process, The Thinking Maps, 6 Thinking Hats and Visible thinking Routines the boys will develop their own personal repertoire of critical thinking skills to help solve a variety of problems.

Article in The Waterfall Magazine