The Think Ahead! series provides you with a programme of lessons that helps students develop their thinking through drama, music and visual arts. Each resource can be used independently or together to create an effective approach to developing thinking across the art curriculum.

Each Think Ahead resource includes 10 motivating group activities that encourage cognitive acceleration through the arts curricula with pupils aged 11, 12, 13 and 14.

As well as developing pupilsĀ’ thinking, the extensively trialled materials in Think Ahead provide the opportunity for increased creativity and better interaction, and for every pupil to be fully involved. Skills developed through working together in this way will benefit pupils in their approach to other subjects.

Resources in the series include:

• Think Ahead! Developing thinking through Drama 11-14 (Stephen Alty & Lorna Pout)
• Think Ahead! Developing thinking through Music 11-14 (Jane Petrie, Will Evans & Harry McLoughlin)
• Think Ahead! Developing thinking through Visual Arts 11-14 (Nigel Leighton & Anne-Marie Quinn)

Benefits

• Easily incorporated into the school year
• Encourages creativity
• Motivates and engages students
• Extensively trialled
• Supports gifted and talented students