Grow students into creative, ethical, and critical thinkers who confidently navigate our changing world. In this comprehensive guide, the author brings together strategies for teaching thinking skills, designing group activities, and promoting a collaborative classroom environment. Begin using these ideas in your own classroom, and watch your students flourish as they learn to question, explore multiple answers, and consider multiple perspectives. Use this resource to explore the importance of student self-efficacy: Understand the development and applications of metacognition. Learn how to teach various thinking skills, including critical, creative, and ethical thinking. Facilitate strong group dialogue among students. Explore problem solving and problem posing in order to encourage thinking-skill usage among students. Embed practical strategies for teaching critical thinking skills into everyday classwork. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction Chapter 1: Metacognition--The Gift That Keeps on Giving Chapter 2: Dialogue for Meaning Making Chapter 3: Protocols for Critical Thinking Chapter 4: Protocols for Creative Thinking Chapter 5: Problem Solving and Problem Posing Chapter 6: Ethical Thinking References and Resources Index
Making Thinking Visible offers educators research-based solutions for creating just such cultures of thinking. This innovative book unravels the mysteries of thinking and its connection to understanding and engagement.
Creating Cultures of Thinking is a rarity a seamless blend of all three genres. Whether you teach kindergarteners or graduate students, you will learn much from this book." Howard Gardner, author of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed
A lively blend of theory and practice, this book shows how VTS has sparked creative teaching in schools across the country.” — Peggy Burchenal, Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education and Public Programs, Isabella Stewart Gardner ...
Providing new research, new global case studies, and new practices, this book: Focuses on the power that thinking routines can bring to learning Provides practical insights on using thinking routines to facilitate student engagement ...
praise for previous books by stephen d. brookfield "Award-winning author Stephen Brookfield offers insight, inspiration, and down-to-earth advice to all teachers in settings as diverse as college, adult education, and secondary schools on ...
This guide Provides the what, why, and how of each practice and answers teachers’ most frequently asked questions Includes firsthand accounts of how these practices foster thinking through teacher and student interviews and student work ...
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Protocols in the Classroom will feature descriptions of protocols that are familiar from the earlier books (e.g., the Last Word, the Tuning Protocols, the Consultancy) and new ones.
" In this book, Suzie Boss and John Larmer build on the framework for Gold Standard PBL originally presented in Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning and explore the seven practices integral to Project Based Teaching: Build the ...
It is like the philosopher Maxine Greene's idea of imagining the world as if it could be otherwise,3 along with having a proclivity toward action. Of the three capacities, finding opportunity is most directly linked to agency because it ...