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We sincerely thank all our fellow educators from across the world who have taken the time to drop us a line to provide feedback on our Thinking Skills WebSite. Your enthusiasm and support for these pages and our Whole School Thinking Skills Program is very much appreciated. We encourage you to create your own Thinking resources and share them with your fellow educators. You may wish to share resources via our website or to send us a link to other fabulous web based resources to share with others. We value your comments and suggestions and urge you to let us know how we can continue to improve this site.

I would like to sincerely thank those responsible for the thinking skills section of your school's web page. I am the Co-ordinator of the Learning and Development Centre - Gifted & Talented for the 4 districts in Far North Queensland - known as the Far Northern Districts. I strongly believe in the value of Higher Order Thinking in catering for students of all ability levels and have been constantly amazed by the wealth of material you have generously made available through your web page. My area extends from Cardwell in the south to the Torres Strait in the north and west to the Gulf of Carpentaria. While it is impossible to visit all of the schools in my districts I try to utilise online methods of support and communication as much as possible. Directing teachers in remote areas to your website is one of the first things I do as I know they will find there many resources and ideas that they will find useful. Believe me, Kurwongbah SS (at least your website) is well known to teachers in my network of schools and we all appreciate what you have done.

Thank you again
Marian Prete,

Co-ordinator - Learning & Development Centre - Gifted and Talented (Far Northern Districts)

I stumbled across your school's website while looking for Thinker's Keys templates. What a fabulous resource you have created! Our school in Christchurch, New Zealand is in our third year of an ICT contract and I am currently searching for resources that will help me integrate Thinker's Keys into my class programme next term…

Janine Ramsay

What wonderful resources you have on your site. I am doing a PD workshop on teaching and learning strategies for a group of elementary school teachers in London, Ontario, Canada and I would love to be able to use some your resources as handouts. I would of course give you credit. Could I please have your permission to reproduce these handouts to give to the teachers.

Thank you!
Valerie

20 May 2004

I have checked out your website a few times and have used the format for your 'thinking' activities to design a few of my own.

Anyway, thanks for a great website …

Helen Cairns

Portland South Primary School

My name is Kate Alcorn and I am the G and T co-ordinator at Pimpama State School. We're a multi-age school too, situated in the Brisbane-Gold Coast corridor. We LOVE your thinking skills site and would like to enquire about using some of it on our school site too. We are in our second year of working as a network school with Robertson LDC (Gifted and Talented) and are trying to share what we're learning with the wider education community...

Looking forward to hearing back from you and congratulations on your site and the obviously fantastic things that must be happening at Kurwongbah!

8 March 2004

This site is great, you have done a great job, thank-you for making it available for all to view. I have made it a favourite and am spreading the word.

Geraldine Mayne

Support Teacher - Gifted and Talented, Denison State School

I am developing an online learning module for teachers in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. This module is titled Bloom's Taxonomy in the Age of Learning Outcomes. This is being done under the mandate of the Virtual Teacher Centre, a not-for-profit professional development vehicle of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association.

While looking for web material to support this module I happened upon your Power Point Presentation, Blooms (Revised) Taxonomy. You did a masterful job of presenting the revisions. This letter is to request permission to use parts of the presentation in the module. I will fully acknowledge the source and direct learners to the original site.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Alex Hickey, Coordinator, Virtual Teacher Centre
www.virtualteachercentre.ca

4 April 2004

.... I have been telling everyone about your schools' thinking skills resources and have been using it as model...I'd thought I'll pass on to you what I have been doing modeled on yours for your staff if they are interested....after all they have put a lot of blood, sweat and hopefully not many tears into theirs.

Kind regards
Sue Urban, ICT Coordinator

Saint Joseph's Primary School

Hectorville SA
Immediate Past President
Gifted and talented Children's Association of SA
Treasurer / SA Director
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented Ltd

Hi, I am an Assistant Principal at Broken Hill North Public School. Excitingly, our school over the past two years has moved into "the thinking mode". We are working with 6 thinking hats, QT and bloom's taxonomy, also this year multiple intelligences. I am lucky enough to head the Quality Teaching target group here and we are continually refining our practices to best suit our students.

I am writing to thank you for your wonderful website. It has allowed me to get some great ideas and to also see where we can go next and how we can incorporate more thinking skills, i.e. Tony Ryan's thinking keys.

8 June 2005

Thank you for sharing the wonderful resources on the "Thinking Skills" portion of the Kurwongbah State School web site. This material shows in-depth research and knowledge of the content of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and other thinking skills literature. The material is also well presented and offers such wonderful, practical classroom applications. This is truly an Internet jewel for pre-service teachers!

You are truly a teacher leader who believes in mentoring others!

Many thanks and g'day!

Sincerely,

Nancy C. Townsend
Francis Marion University
Florence, Southern Carolina

17 July 2005

I visited your web site on the recommendation of Dawn Lindsay (one of Western Australia`s HOTS leading educators). I was really impressed by its presentation and clarity and the by the wealth of information that was available to your school community.

18 October 2005

I am part of an ICT contract in New Zealand and I found your site while surfing for thinking skills. I just want to thank you so much for being so generous and allowing others to use your ideas I have used some in our school using the format for your 'thinking' activities to design a few of my own... The site is amazing with so many student user templates, ideas etc, it has really stimulated my imagination.

Again many thanks for your generosity.

Michele North
Principal
Pukehina School
1762 Old Coach Road
RD 6
TE PUKE

I just want to say thank you for an excellent website from the perspective of a university student. I am currently in my final year at CQU and I wish I had found your website sooner than today. The litany of information about thinking skills is outstanding and I have passed on the website address to all my peers. I am completing my ten week internship in term three and I know that I will be spending time at your website daily to inform my practice. I have been eager to use Multiple Intelligences while on my internship and the wonderful resources on your site have inspired me even more.

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