Thinking Tools Lessons

Author : Donald J. Treffinger,Carole A. Nassab
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Creative thinking
ISBN : 9781882664634

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Thinking Tools Lessons by Donald J. Treffinger,Carole A. Nassab Pdf

Thinking Tools Lessons is a user-friendly guide to help any teacher make productive thinking a part of classroom instruction for all students. This book provides nine carefully designed, classroom-tested sample lessons to start students on the road to creative and critical thinking. Each lesson includes a practical, ready-to-use plan, but also allows you to modify the lesson easily to meet your students' interests and needs. Each lesson guides you in preparing instruction, carrying out the plan, closing and debriefing the session, and conducting follow-up activities. The lessons in this book deal with "tools for thinking." These materials will help you learn the tools and then apply them with your students. And, the lessons make productive thinking lively and exciting! Book jacket.

Author : Carol Booth Olson,Angie Balius,Emily McCourtney,Mary Widtmann
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807776834

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Thinking Tools for Young Readers and Writers by Carol Booth Olson,Angie Balius,Emily McCourtney,Mary Widtmann Pdf

In her new book, bestselling author and professional developer Carol Booth Olson and colleagues show teachers how to help young readers and writers construct meaning from and with texts. This practical resource offers a rich array of research-based teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons focused on the “thinking tools” employed by experienced readers and writers. It shows teachers how to draw on the natural connections between reading and writing, and how cognitive strategies can be embedded into the teaching of narrative, informational, and argumentative texts. Including artifacts and written work produced by students across the grade levels, the authors connect the cognitive and affective domains for full student engagement. “This book seamlessly bridges the gap from research to everyday practice.... You get an extremely well-organized set of overarching instructional principles that are right for our era and brought to life through well-explained instructional guides and classroom activities.” —From the Foreword by Judith Langer, University at Albany, SUNY “I have always admired Carol Booth Olson’s work with secondary students and teachers. She now applies those essential principles and practices to elementary and middle school students. Bravo!” —P. David Pearson, professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Elena Bodrova,Deborah Leong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040005439

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Tools of the Mind by Elena Bodrova,Deborah Leong Pdf

Now in its third edition, this classic text remains the seminal resource for in-depth information about major concepts and principles of the cultural-historical theory developed by Lev Vygotsky, his students, and colleagues, as well as three generations of neo-Vygotskian scholars in Russia and the West. Featuring two new chapters on brain development and scaffolding in the zone of proximal development, as well as additional content on technology, dual language learners, and students with disabilities, this new edition provides the latest research evidence supporting the basics of the cultural-historical approach alongside Vygotskian-based practical implications. With concrete explanations and strategies on how to scaffold young children’s learning and development, this book is essential reading for students of early childhood theory and development.

Author : Ron Ritchhart,Mark Church,Karin Morrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118015018

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Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart,Mark Church,Karin Morrison Pdf

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.

Author : Cas Olivier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781527539808

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Potential Development Using Thinking Tools by Cas Olivier Pdf

Educators need to empower learners to be prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to be thinkers with the ability to pioneer the future. This book cracks teaching and learning myths that led to learners being perceived as knowledge duplicators instead of being knowledge creators. Thinking tools move the focus of learning from mastering content to critical thinking. This requires the critical thinking toolkit, which is the mothership of all thinking. It engages learners’ forever-wandering minds with the learning task at hand, which is the substitute for the traditional expectations of “paying attention” and “memorising”. When employing thinking tools, learners become thinking engineers—taking ownership of what they must discover, create or solve. Within this paradigm of teaching, teachers directly engage with learners’ brains, which goes beyond learner-centred teaching and defining learning as visual, auditory or kinaesthetic. The book is based on examples of thinking tools sessions.

Author : Carol McGuinness,Carol Curry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415454549

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Thinking Lessons for Thinking Classrooms by Carol McGuinness,Carol Curry Pdf

Thinking Lessons for Thinking Classrooms will help primary schools looking for ways to promote children's thinking. Focusing on skills such as: information processing, reasoning, enquiry, being creative, evaluating, problem-solving, decision-making and working with others, the book shows teachers how to design and teach thinking lessons across the curriculum.

Author : Carol Booth Olson,Angie Balius,Emily McCourtney,Mary Widtmann
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807758946

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Thinking Tools for Young Readers and Writers by Carol Booth Olson,Angie Balius,Emily McCourtney,Mary Widtmann Pdf

Why take a cognitive strategies approach to helping young readers and writers to think big? -- Best practices in reading and writing instruction for students in grades 2-8 -- Reading and writing narrative texts -- Reading and writing informative/expository texts -- Reading and writing opinion, persuasive, interpretive, and argumentative texts.

Author : Edward De Bono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reasoning
ISBN : 1864012609

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CoRT Thinking by Edward De Bono Pdf

CoRT 5 is concerned with eliciting information and assessing it. Some of the lessons are concerned with specific tools while others are concerned with encouraging awareness of different aspects of information. Values and emotions determine the outcome of our thinking. The purpose of these lessons is to arrange the world in our minds so that we can apply values and emotions effectively.

Author : Philip Cam
Publisher : Aust Council for Ed Research
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780864315014

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Twenty Thinking Tools by Philip Cam Pdf

Annotation. Beginning with an Introductory Toolkit, Twenty Thinking Tools shows teachers how to strengthen students abilities to ask insightful questions, to look at problems and issues from various points of view, to explore disagreements reasonably, to make appropriate use of examples, to draw needful distinctions, and generally to develop their imaginative, conceptual and logical abilities in order to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of all kinds of subject matter.

Author : Nathaniel Bluedorn,Hans Bluedorn
Publisher : Christian Logic
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780974531557

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The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel Bluedorn,Hans Bluedorn Pdf

Author : Meredith J. Harbord,Sara Riaz Khan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040043318

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21 Visual Thinking Tools for the Classroom by Meredith J. Harbord,Sara Riaz Khan Pdf

This resource is for any busy teacher looking to enrich their lesson planning and support the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and metacognition skills. Designed for use in Grades 5–10, each of these 21 tools is paired with a real-world issue or ethical dilemma to guide students through complex social, emotional, and intellectual topics and can even be used within your existing lessons. Every chapter introduces a different visual thinking tool and a step-by-step approach for a range of topics from challenging bias and promoting self-awareness to reflecting on social interactions. Stories from the classroom and world, a range of ethical issues, and student and educator examples illustrate how the tools can be used. Ideal for in-service teachers in Grades 5–10 across content areas regardless of curriculums, these tools will inspire your students to be open-minded and actively engage in classroom discussions while developing new and different perspectives about themselves, your lessons and the world around them. The 21 Harbord & Khan Thinking Tools © featured in the book are available to download for classroom use at www.routledge.com/9781032662923.

Author : CJ Simister
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781446229828

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How to Teach Thinking and Learning Skills by CJ Simister Pdf

Includes Online Resources ′The author puts into perspective the importance of teaching thinking and learning skills providing clear explanations and easy to follow activities that can be used as a series of lessons, or simply as a one off. As a resource for the primary practitioner it is both practical and informative′ - ESCalate ′A treasure-trove of practical resources to stretch young people′s thinking muscles!′ - Professor Guy Claxton, University of Bristol ′It is full of useful ideas for busy teachers and helpful in getting the children rather than the teachers to do the thinking in the classroom′ - Professor Robert Fisher, Brunel University By helping children to form positive thinking and learning habits, and to develop a range of transferable skills, we give them the tools they need to become successful learners. This book is grounded in the best of current practice and theories surrounding thinking and learning skills. It provides a highly effective method for introducing a comprehensive set of thinking and learning skills to children aged 5 to 11, as well as for integrating these skills through the curriculum. By means of carefully developed games, activities and group tasks, these ready-to-use lessons will appeal to a wide range of learners and abilities. Features of the book include: - a clear explanation of what thinking and learning skills are; - lots of photocopiable activities, for use by individual teachers and in INSET; - a plan for introducing thinking and learning skills in your school; - suggestions for further reading and development of the programme. Headteachers, Curriculum Co-ordinators and classroom practitioners wishing to introduce and develop thinking and learning skills in their school can either follow this programme in its entirety, or dip into it when appropriate for specific activities.

Author : Edward De Bono
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 0080344534

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CoRT Thinking:Teacher's Notes by Edward De Bono Pdf

Author : Peter Worley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472916105

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40 lessons to get children thinking: Philosophical thought adventures across the curriculum by Peter Worley Pdf

This is the type of book many teachers will keep on their desk and use the exercises very regularly; for me it is up there with Geoff Petty's 'Evidence-Based Teaching' and Paul Ginnis's 'The Teacher's Toolkit' as an essential resource. Worley is an excellent clear writer, who communicates very complex ideas very well.” Francis Gilbert [http://www.francisgilbert.co.uk/], teacher, teacher trainer and author of ' I'm a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here' Inspire your class to think more deeply about curriculum subjects and get them actively taking part in exciting philosophy experiments today! This new book by bestselling author and founder of The Philosophy Foundation Peter Worley is a collection of practical lesson and activity plans to use in the primary classroom to get children thinking philosophically and creatively around different curriculum areas. The sessions - called thought adventures - use thought experiments, stories and poems to get children discussing and understanding topics more deeply. Each session is explained step-by-step, with everything you need to 'do' and 'say' spelled out, and all the equipment you need listed with instructions on how to set up each session. You can implement the sessions in the classroom either as a complete lesson or as an activity within another lesson. All the sessions are tried and tested by Peter and his colleagues at The Philosophy Foundation who work with primary schools on a regular basis.

Author : Richard Paul,Linda Elder
Publisher : Pearson Education (Us)
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Critical thinking
ISBN : 0132778882

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Critical Thinking by Richard Paul,Linda Elder Pdf

For Student Success and Career Development, or Critical Thinkingcourses.This book is designed to help readers develop specific and powerful critical thinking skills, abilities and traits in order to improve the quality of their thinking in every part of their lives. The book focuses on helping readers take thinking apart, both their own thinking and the thinking of others, and then assess and transform it. This edition adds chapters on fallacies in thinking, as well as on media bias and propaganda."