Teacher Standards

Give Time to Think: Encouraging Thinking to Promote Learning

Join Sue Marks, an experienced leader, teacher trainer and mentor, as she guides you through the development of strategies to promote thinking time for learners. Promoting thinking time can help support pupils’ understanding and learning. It can encourage active participation, help clarify understanding and offer opportunities to develop the quality of pupil response. Follow this engaging course to explore strategies and benefits of giving pupils time to think in the classroom.
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Sue Marks & Carly Watkins

2 hours

Online Course

By completing this course, you will:

develop an understanding of pupil thinking time;
understand why giving pupils thinking time is beneficial; 
consider strategies to develop thinking time in your practice; 
evaluate the effect of these strategies;
review and consider next steps. 

Course Lessons

Written by: Sue Marks

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Sue has 30+ years in education, including 15 as a headteacher. With an MA in Educational Leadership, she is now pursuing an Education Doctorate on Supervision in Education. Sue also trains and mentors teachers as well as writing for The Leaders Team.

In collaboration with: Carly Watkins

Carly is the Quality of Education Lead at Twinkl PD, overseeing the development of Teachers' Standards courses. She is an experienced primary school teacher and senior leader with an MA in Education Practice and NPQ in Leading Teacher Development. Carly also facilitates the ECF, delivering training for current mentors and ECTs; she is passionate about accessible and actionable professional development for all educators at all levels.