Dr Marcelo Staricoff
Dr Marcelo Staricoff
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Dr Marcelo Staricoff FCCT, NPQF, PhD, PGCE, BSc.
Marcelo is a former Primary Headteacher and is the founder and director of The Joy of Not Knowing (JONK Thinking and Learning) and author of Start Thinking and of three forthcoming books to be published in 2020; ‘The Joy of Not Knowing’ (Routledge), ‘Start Thinking Early’ (Imaginative Minds) and ‘Empezar Pensando’ (Imaginative Minds). Marcelo has recently been elected as Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and is a Trustee of the Laurel Trust, a grant giving charity supporting innovative educational research in areas of high deprivation. Marcelo is an associate of a number of organisations, including the University of Sussex. |
For over twenty years Marcelo has been researching creative thinking approaches to the curriculum as a practitioner, publishing articles, speaking at national and international conferences and sharing with schools the practical approaches that help schools to build on their existing practice and create inspirational ‘learning to learn and to think’ classroom and school cultures, in which all children are able to thrive, by developing a lifelong love of learning and an intrinsic motivation to want to know.
Marcelo specialises in working with students in the classroom and leading staff professional development sessions that remove barriers to learning and enable all students to transform the way they view the process of learning and the way they perceive themselves as learners and thinkers. Marcelo equips schools with all they need to introduce the concept of a ‘Learning to Learn Week’ and the ‘Model of Excellence and Enjoyment’ into their academic year and nurture all students as successful individuals, lifelong learners and global citizens.
Marcelo believes in devoting specific time to explicitly teach the children ‘how to learn’ and specialises in introducing them to a myriad of techniques, skills and dispositions that become embedded within the daily life of the classroom and of the delivery of the curriculum, such as personal learning models, critical and creative thinking skills, visible thinking and learning skills, challenge, intellectual playfulness, philosophy, nurturing the home-learning-school partnership and introducing the lifelong learning dispositions of being curious, strategically aware, creative, resilient, independent and meaning making.
Marcelo specialises in working with students in the classroom and leading staff professional development sessions that remove barriers to learning and enable all students to transform the way they view the process of learning and the way they perceive themselves as learners and thinkers. Marcelo equips schools with all they need to introduce the concept of a ‘Learning to Learn Week’ and the ‘Model of Excellence and Enjoyment’ into their academic year and nurture all students as successful individuals, lifelong learners and global citizens.
Marcelo believes in devoting specific time to explicitly teach the children ‘how to learn’ and specialises in introducing them to a myriad of techniques, skills and dispositions that become embedded within the daily life of the classroom and of the delivery of the curriculum, such as personal learning models, critical and creative thinking skills, visible thinking and learning skills, challenge, intellectual playfulness, philosophy, nurturing the home-learning-school partnership and introducing the lifelong learning dispositions of being curious, strategically aware, creative, resilient, independent and meaning making.
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Areas of Expertise
✓ Speaker at National and International Conferences ✓ Staff Professional Development ✓ Improving Pupil Outcomes ✓ Critical and Creative Thinking ✓ Independent and Meaning Making |
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