—Eileen Depka, Educational Consultant and Author “As director of curriculum for a K–12 public school district, I have seen firsthand how the teachings of Bellanca, Fogarty, and Pete lead to major improvements in curriculum and instruction, and increases in student achievement. How to Teach Thinking Skills is essential and instrumental to any teacher hoping to teach more than content. This book is seminal to the development of 21st century learners as independent and adaptive thinkers in a rapidly changing, ever-evolving digital world.” —Richard Cohen, Principal, Assistant Superintendent, and Director of Curriculum, Metuchen School District, New Jersey
Skills
In How to Teach Thinking Skills: Seven Key Student Proficiencies for College and Career Readiness, Second Edition, authors James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete offer tools and strategies for educators to design rich and rigorous lessons that explicitly teach higher-order-thinking skills to ensure all students are college and career ready. This second edition supports K−12 teachers in teaching thinking skills using any state-mandated or content area–specific standards. Using this book, they will become familiar with seven thinking proficiencies—(1) critical thinking, (2) creative thinking, (3) complex thinking, (4) comprehensive thinking, (5) collaborative thinking, (6) communicative thinking, and (7) cognitive transfer—essential for students’ postsecondary success.
How to Teach Thinking
“How to Teach Thinking Skills is a step-by-step approach to not only teaching thinking skills but also implementing them. The book is full of examples at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. . . . Thought-provoking reflective questions, included throughout, are perfect for conversations and the generation of ideas within collaborative teams or for individual educators. Teachers will appreciate the clear, consistent organization and focus of this book.”
K−12 teachers will:
X Discover a three-phase teaching model outlining how to explicitly teach twenty-one thinking skills X Help students make direct connections between thinking skills and standards as they apply skills to performance tasks X Discover ways to integrate technology into selected lessons for enriched learning X Use end-of-chapter reflection questions to understand the impact of teaching thinking skills
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X Learn how to effectively prepare students for postsecondary literacy and mathematics demands