The competence-centre of the centre for special-needs education of the german speaking part of belgium develops & offers teacher-trainings and new teaching-concepts. As our client-teachers strive to better prepare students for real world careers and challenges, we need to focus on developing students' creative and critical thinking skills. Educators can encourage students to become 21st-century problem solvers by introducing them to a wide variety of thinking tools.This training’s purpose is to teach educators different ways and methods of empowering their students to become creative thinkers, critical thinkers, and problem solvers—people who are continually learning and who can apply their new knowledge to complex, novel, open-ended challenges; people who will proceed confidently and competently into the new horizons of life and work.The workshop itself is a practical example of how to conduct a creative and critical thinking class, using this frame at the design of each session. All this new know-how will immediately be integrated in the development of our teacher-trainings and teaching-concepts.