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What if you only changed one thing this term?

Teach The Thinking is a short, subject-agnostic guide for teachers who want to check their curriculum is preparing students for the thinking that will actually matter in the age of AI.

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Free. No course pitch. Six questions, six reframes, six small things to try.

 

The centre of gravity has shifted. The curriculum hasn’t.

 

67% of UK teens use AI for schoolwork, fact recall is finished as a goal. Motor skills are being captured on camera. Pattern-matching is a commodity.

What machines can’t do yet is the decision layer. Defining the problem. Choosing between trade-offs. Knowing when to stop. Knowing when something isn’t good enough and why.

That’s the bit your students need most. It’s also the bit most schemes of work under-weight.

Teach The Thinking helps you find where, in your subject, you’re already doing it, and where the assessment quietly rewards the wrong thing.

 

“The content can mostly stay. The marking criteria probably can’t.”

Six sections. One page each. Zero fluff.

 

Each section gives you three reflective questions, a reframe, and one small thing to try this week or this term.

  1. Problem definition — who decides what’s worth solving
  2. Reasoning trails — marking the thinking, not just the outcome
  3. Productive failure — protecting the space where learning happens
  4. Trade-off thinking — teaching defensible decisions
  5. Critical AI literacy — helping students read the deal
  6. What you’re measuring — the question that does the heavy lifting

This is for you if

  • You’re already good at your job, and you’re asking harder questions than your curriculum is currently set up to answer.
  • You want something you can use on your own, or bring to a department meeting.
  • You’re tired of AI content that’s either breathless or doom-laden.

 

It’s subject-agnostic. D&T teachers, English teachers, Scientists, and Heads of Department have all found something useful in it.

 

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Want company while you work through it?

The guide stands on its own. You don’t need anything else.

But if you’d rather think this through with other teachers working it out in real time, PPA Buddy’s community is free to join. We’re asking the same questions you are, and we share what we’re actually trying in our classrooms.

No course to buy. No upsell. Just a quieter corner of the internet for teachers who want to do this thoughtfully.

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