The Four Goals

• Developing Awareness - Awareness of thinking processes is essential for personal enhancement in every walk of life. The Mind Lab Method, making use of unique metacognitive thinking models, emphasises reflective and cognisant thinking that enhances the use of rational processes and enables pupils to constantly progress.
  
  
• Imparting Thinking Skills - in our information-rich age, an ever-increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of basic thinking skills. The Mind Lab Method provides a broad range of these skills: problem-solving strategies, decision-making models, investigative processes, information and data management, logical and mathematical thinking, verbal and communication skills, and more.
  
  
• Strengthening Life Skills - The board game-playing experience is an extraordinary simulative tool for the development of emotional and social intelligence. It obliges us to deal with situations involving cooperation and competition, winning and losing, success and failure, and it reinforces our ability to effectively manage and control our emotions, to defer gratification and to enhance our determination, perseverance and self-discipline.
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Transference  - The application of content and skills learned in one setting to another is considered by many researchers to be one of the most important learning abilities. Mind Lab's unique teaching method establishes an organising base for many aspects of our lives. Through this method, children develop the ability to identify links between different fields of human thinking and activity, and this consequently enables them to transfer knowledge and apply it to other fields.
  
  For further information, please contact Mind Lab NZ