PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

The main objective of the Think Impact Program is to assist students in their learning ‘how’ to think more effectively and productively. Thinking that is productive will also combine and exercise the abilities of thinking both appropriately and creatively, and to do so in the face of novel challenges of increasing levels of difficulty as the course progresses. Both these faculties are essential for the well-rounded productive thinker.

THINK IMPACT is made up of 5 major experiential learning modules and they are

1. Critical Thinking

2. Critical Reasoning

3. Problem Seeking/Solving

4. Numerical and Spatial Reasoning

5. Linguistic Reasoning

Project Management

This module provides the opportunity for children to manage a project independently, employing the combined skills and knowledge which they have accumulated over the previous months. Students are able to practice their goal setting skills, enhance their ability to manage changing circumstances, exercise their resources allocation and delegation skills, increase their data analytical skills and develop their problem anticipation ability.

Survival Skills

Survival skills are nonetheless useful and important when managing a variety of adverse situations, and are in that sense, valuable people skills. Identifying problems, resources acquisition and allocation, adapting to changes and understanding interpersonal relationships are crucial elements for a child to develop excellent survival skills.

Practical Leadership

Good leaders will be able to stimulate other’s potentials, facilitating their team members to do what they each are best capable of, and thus producing optimal results. They will also understand the concerns of others, and respond to those concerns in proactive ways in order to minimize disputations, frustrations, misunderstandings, or confusion. Our students are able to lead their teams towards the production of the best obtainable results, at the lowest possible costing estimates of time, human and physical resources.

Plan to Succeed

A good plan will help children remain focused, yet remain flexible with contingency routes built into them for coping with the unexpected events. Plan to Succeed will allow students to become more responsible for their own future plans and actions, whilst maintaining a positive attitude and enjoyment of their life as lived along a path filled with significant learning opportunities.

Time Management

“Time will pass by even we do nothing!” Learning to prioritise and schedule tasks efficiently is the key to help children successfully manage the conflicts between the limited time and the to-do list. Of particular concern when engaging in tasks involving the coordination of several people, good task management or schedule management is vital in making the difference.

Money Smart

Having the concept of how one might be able to acquire money, it is then necessary to learn how to spend such money selectively and efficiently, according to one’s present and future needs, commitments, and desires. Together with an adequate knowledge to calculate, prioritise item expenditure in different situations, plan investments and to evaluate cost-benefit analysis will help prepare the students for the real world of personal independence and financial responsibility.

Leadership

Children who succeed with managing their decisions to choose either a leadership or follower role across a range of changing circumstances, will likely take markedly different paths in their later lives in comparison to others – growing up with significantly enhanced intellectual foresight and self-esteem, with an eye for exploration, discovery, and success with detecting and following-through with their creative opportunities.

Coping Skills

Usually children with good coping abilities will bravely face or even seek out various difficulties and come to view immediate obstacles as providing opportunities for new learning and application. It is crucial for children to develop their systematic thinking and skills of organisation such that they may readily accept and tackle problems or changes even when they may at first appear overwhelming or excessively complex.

Communication

Communication skills involve question generation, negotiation, discussion, presentation, conflict resolution or public speaking, any of which will significantly influence other people with often quite amazing, powerful impact. Children with good communication skills will remain open to a wide variety of opportunities for social interaction, networking and facilitated learning across a range of ever changing circumstances.