ThinQ announces a web-course on Inquiry and Integration in Education (IIE). With IIE’s fifth cohort, join the 600+ learners who have already embarked on this immersive journey.

In order to develop intellectual wellness and higher order thinking capacities, which is ThinQ’s primary focus, the course is designed to:

1. broaden your horizon to critical thinking and critical reading across disciplines
2. fuel your ability to inquire, to structure to your ways of thinking
3. learn to use tools to deeply understand concepts you wish to
4. develop clarity and rigour in thinking, reasoning, and communicating.

The carefully structured subject matter of this course covers a wide range of academic disciplines, from mathematics to the physical, biological, and human sciences, and humanities.

The course doesn’t presuppose specialization in any particular discipline. The level of ‘knowledge’ required of you is no more than what is expected of a high school student.

What do you get out of it?

1. Capacity to engage in rational inquiry, and become a capable debater
2. The ability to learn on your own, and make sensible decisions in everyday life
3. An introduction to research across disciplines, without any specialisation
4. Mental capabilities to function well in professional, public, and personal lives

And if you are concerned with meaningfully educating the young, as educators, parents, administrators, or policy makers, this is an opportunity to forge an approach to education that would help them imbibe and develop important cognitive capacities not found in formal curricula.

You will benefit from IIE-2019, if you:

1. wish to improve your ability to think critically, and inquire;
2. would like to deepen your critical understanding of the issues in the world around you;
3. are a teacher in school or college, teacher trainer/educator, a textbook writer, a curriculum creator or consultant, a parent, the head of a school or college, an official in the education sector, a college student interested in enhancing intellectual abilities, a researcher, or simply anyone with a commitment to sharpening intellectual abilities.

Who will benefit from IIE?

• High school students who are keen to go beyond just understanding information in their text books
• Undergraduate students who would like to develop their academic intelligence
• Graduate students who are considering doing research in any field
• Parents who would like to empower their children to get meaningfully educated
• Educators who would like to tune their curriculum to deliver best educational value
• 9th graders to grandparents and great-grandparents interested in enhancing their intellectual fitness

ThinQ believes that the purpose of education must encircle the physical, emotional, intellectual, pragmatic, aesthetic, and ethical wellness of individuals. Such wellness is essential to our ability to understand and change the world around us, and to enable not just success but also enhancement of its entire ecosystem.

Course Structure

The 22 weeks of the course are organized around three elements:

1. TEN Learning Triggers (LTs)

   An LT in IIE is typically a package made up of readings and/or videos, designed to develop inquiry, critical thinking, and integration abilities.

   We will mail you a new LT every alternate week. Each LT will have 2 weeks devoted to it. You are expected to actively engage with the material — read/watch, think through.

   Towards the end of the 2 weeks, you will receive a Quiz. You are expected to submit your responses online.

2. Discussion Forums meant for exploring questions and ideas relevant to inquiry and integration, arising from the discussions in LTs as well as other related ideas.
3. Face-to-Face Meetings in select cities, depending on the number of participants and the level of interest.

Certification

Participants who successfully complete the course will receive, upon written request,a course completion certificate. Successful completion depends on the regularity and quality of submissions in response to the Learning Triggers. It includes the participant’s degree of engagement and of learning indicated by the submissions, and by the nature of questions raised.

Your Investment

Commitment to learning, and willingness to invest time and effort.

Time: Spend at least three to four hours a week. If you put in more time, the results would be even better.

Effort: Go through the course materials at least twice, think through them, write your responses, note what you don’t understand, and most importantly, engage in collective thinking, by participating actively in the forum discussions. (It is important to not just read, but to actually engage with the readings and discussions, and articulate your thoughts.)

The fee for the course is Rs.15,000 (plus a small convenience charge for the payment gateway) to cover the costs of our services. As a not-for-profit, we accept participants who can't afford the fee, to pay any amount they can, and those who volunteer to pay a higher fee anytime till the end of the course. The course fee is refundable if you opt out of the course anytime before the start of the third Learning Trigger (4 weeks).

To apply, please click on the link below.

Application Form

Once we have received all the applications (by May 1), we will inform you of the outcome of your application. We will also send details of the registration process along with the link for payment. Registration is complete once the payment is made. You will then receive your Registration Number before the course commences.

If you have any queries or concerns, please write to us at contactus@schoolofthinq.com.