This self-paced on-line course will cover 7 particular areas of content:

1. The Focused Thinking Programme (ages 10 to adult)
2. The Six Thinking Hats (ages 4 to adult)
3. Creativity (ages 4 to adult)
4. Creative Thinking techniques and Lateral Thinking (ages 10 to adult)
5. Application to the Curriculum.
6. Relevant supplementary reading.
7. Concentration.

Supplementary reading consists of the history of thinking, brain development, traditional logic forms, inductive and deductive reasoning, Bias Forms, Critical Thinking and simple concentration exercises.

The on-line format of the course enables you to study when and where you want to learn. Content is divided into 5 modules which you can complete in any order between July 1st and August 27th 2010.

Participants are encouraged to interact with one another using the communication tools (forum, chat, e-mail) provided by the CPD College learning system. Active facilitation throughout the course provides expert interaction, guidance and feedback for all participants. Assignments and questions which call for critical reflection, self-analysis and a reasoned response punctuate this highly interactive web based course.

On completion of the course the participant will be presented with their own time record, excercise content and approval by the course facilitator as their CPD record to keep.