Welcome to the PETS™ website!
Primary Education Thinking Skills or PETS™ is a systematized enrichment and diagnostic thinking skills program. Lessons are presented in convergent analysis, divergent synthesis, visual/spatial thinking, and evaluation, suitable for grades K-3. The program aligns to the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
PETS™ helps build behavioral portfolios for talented learners that support a differentiated approach to their education, integrates flexibly into any existing primary curriculum, and offers opportunities for learners with different strengths to shine.
I am the gifted resource teacher at a PK-6th grade school. For the last 4 years I have been using "Primary Education Thinking Skills" with all of the first grade classes on a regular basis. I go into each of the classrooms weekly with new lessons from PETS. The teachers stay in the classroom and use this time to observe their own students. Teachers and parents love the skills taught by these fun loving characters. The students often make comments throughout the week such as "You mean to think like Dudley?"! I use PETS books 2 and 3 in the resource class with the gifted students!...
--R. Hill, Alabama
My students have formed relationships with the characters utilized in this program. They understand what type of thinking each character represents, and now remind me to get the characters out when we are classifying, deducing, brainstorming, or judging.
-S. Carlson, New Hampshire