Thinking is an intelligent activity in the process of facing difficulties or situations and solving problems.

Thinking ability is not innate. Only when the mental activity is the most vigorous and active in early childhood and childhood, can children think more deeply and extensively by receiving systematic and perfect thinking training in time. Thinking training can improve children's self-confidence in learning and their ability to find and solve problems. The higher a child's grade is, the more he wants to learn and the more information he is exposed to. This requires children to improve their thinking ability, that is, the ability to quickly absorb, digest and process the large amount of information they come into contact with. Only in this way can children be confident when they study school courses and master and apply knowledge in various subjects.

"Thinking Pizza" helps all children in the world to develop logical thinking and creativity in a balanced way and systematically cultivate their thinking ability. It is the only systematic, professional and balanced thinking training course in China. It is named "Thinking Pizza" because it is full of fun and can develop children's thinking ability in a balanced way, just like a pizza with delicious and balanced nutrition necessary for children's growth.

First, think about the background of pizza

Successful thinking education can overcome various problems existing in current school education and family education, and cultivate children into outstanding talents with both logical thinking and creative thinking.

Problems in kindergarten and primary education

At present, the following problems generally exist in kindergarten education, namely:

1. Teaching content mainly based on imparting knowledge and inculcating recitation,

2. Teaching methods that ignore students' personality,

3. The content of thinking education is not systematic, and the development and application of teaching methods and learning materials are insufficient.

4. Rigid classroom organization mode

This kind of teaching focuses more on imparting knowledge and training skills according to the syllabus and teaching materials, which can not stimulate students' thinking, provide children with more opportunities and experiences for thinking, and naturally cannot cultivate children's creative problem-solving thinking ability. However, in order to survive, develop and succeed in the ever-changing information age, it is not enough to have only memory and basic knowledge and skills. What children need is the ability to successfully solve every new problem they encounter through analysis, organization, reasoning and other processing processes based on a large amount of information obtained. Therefore, children's education should not stay at the level of teaching children to memorize skillfully and master prescribed knowledge points, but should focus on cultivating children's creativity and criticism in collecting, analyzing, organizing and evaluating various information. Only those who can think deeply and perfectly can have a better chance to live a meaningful and valuable happy life.

From this point of view, it is very important to cultivate talents who can think, or talents with excellent thinking ability, both for individuals and for the country. Thinking ability can be improved and developed through systematic thinking method training and practice. What we need to do is to provide more opportunities and experiences for children to think and give them more opportunities to ask questions.

(B) Problems in family education

1. Parents' fixed ideas are a big obstacle to children's creative development.

If parents measure, judge and deny children's unique insights and creativity according to their own ideas and values, it will hinder the development of children's creative thinking.

2. Parents overemphasize academic performance, which will make children's thinking narrow.

If parents pay too much attention to the results of school courses focusing on learning knowledge, the children's thinking world will become narrower and narrower.

Measuring a child's ability only according to his academic performance will stifle his potential and talent.

If parents can't find their children's own talents and abilities, and always compare their children's academic performance with other children, and create a tense atmosphere of depression or competition, it will aggravate children's tension and anxiety and hinder children from creating and putting forward new and unique ideas.

4. Parents' overly authoritative or tolerant attitude will hinder children from thinking logically and reasonably.

It is inappropriate to ask children to unconditionally obey their parents' instructions and demands, or to turn a blind eye to any actions of their children. This will make children think and judge without thinking when they encounter problems, or passively accept them or be willful.

The above problems of school education and family education tell us that thinking education is very necessary.

Second, the theoretical and practical basis of pizza thinking

(A) theoretical basis

Thinking pizza combines Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences to develop the thinking skills in eight fields, including exploration, number, spatial perception, memory, analysis, logical form, creative thinking and problem solving, so as to comprehensively improve children's overall thinking level.

Gardner believes that the definition of intelligence in the past was too narrow and failed to correctly reflect a person's true ability. He believes that a person's intelligence should be an index to measure his ability to solve problems. According to this definition, he proposed that human intelligence can be divided into at least eight categories. That is, language (speech/linguistics), logic (logic/mathematics), space (vision/space), body operation (body/kinesthetic), music (music/rhythm), interpersonal (interpersonal/social), introspection (personal introspection/introspection) and natural exploration (naturalism).

Third, the main characteristics of thinking pizza

(1) A scientific evaluation system can diagnose children's learning ability and thinking ability, and put forward a targeted and personalized learning curriculum plan.

Through diagnostic evaluation before learning, formative evaluation every week, and holistic evaluation after each stage of learning, we can understand children's academic performance, analyze each child's advantages and disadvantages, and choose the most suitable learning starting point for each child according to 555 subdivided learning goals, and tailor the learning plan.

(2) Provide a rich curriculum system that meets the needs of cultivating children's thinking ability.

In Pisa for Thinking, logical concepts and philosophical contents are arranged in a relaxed and interesting way to train children to think logically, put forward logically and express their views accurately.

The textbook contains training contents that can stimulate children's thinking fluency, flexibility, originality, exquisiteness and social perceptual intelligence (EQ), so that children can play their creativity as happily and freely as playing games.

By developing the logical thinking ability of the left brain and the creativity of the right brain in a balanced way, it will not only help to improve children's academic performance, but also cultivate children's positive and optimistic attitude towards life and actively face and creatively solve various difficulties in life.

Attention, observation, persistence in problems and tenacity are essential basic attitudes in learning, and a good learning attitude can make learning more effective. "Thinking pizza" can help children form a good learning attitude, improve their thinking ability and make them more confident in their studies at school.

(3) Innovating teaching methods and management systems to cultivate children's thinking ability.

Pisa thinking in early childhood is mainly based on original fairy tales, traditional fairy tales or foreign fairy tales, which involve key learning themes in kindergartens. At the same time, all kinds of thinking exercises are designed around fairy tales, and each textbook is arranged with auxiliary contents such as creative inspiration, intelligent inspiration or manual production, which enhances the interest of the textbook and can help children develop left-brain and right-brain textbooks in a balanced way.

Each Pisa primary school thinking textbook also contains a story, and also combines fairy tale materials to arrange thinking exercises for learning goals in various fields. In addition, the "Do you know" column is arranged on the second page of each textbook, which introduces the stories of various representative figures with useful common sense and creativity.

Fourth, the guiding method of "thinking about pizza"

"Thinking about pizza" mainly adopts the method of systematically asking inspiring questions to children, guiding them to think deeply, encouraging and praising them, and inspiring them to keep thinking.