AGIS Anniversary Conference, Hannover 2022

Sustained Shared Thinking (SST) is free, needs no equipment and can be achieved by all teachers and assistants. It is not a new idea or something ‘extra’ practitioners have to do. Actually, it is probably something that you are doing all the time already. An episode of SST is when two or more individuals ‘work together’ in an intellectual way to solve a problem, clarify a concept, evaluate activities, extend a narrative, etc. Both parties must contribute to the thinking and it must develop and extend. In basic terms SST describes those lovely, in-depth conversations that you have with children about anything and everything.