How to Teach Thinking Skills (ePub)

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer.

How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement:

• Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards.



• Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans.



• Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects.



• Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking.



• Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills.

Contents:


Acknowledgments


Table of Contents


About the Authors


Introduction

Student Proficiency 1: Critical Thinking


Chapter 1: Analyze


Chapter 2: Evaluate


Chapter 3: Problem Solve

Student Proficiency 2: Creative Thinking


Chapter 4: Generate


Chapter 5: Associate


Chapter 6: Hypothesize

Student Proficiency 3: Complex Thinking


Chapter 7: Clarify


Chapter 8: Interpret


Chapter 9: Determine

Student Proficiency 4: Comprehensive Thinking


Chapter 10: Understand


Chapter 11: Infer


Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast

Student Proficiency 5: Collaborative Thinking


Chapter 13: Explain


Chapter 14: Develop


Chapter 15: Decide

Student Proficiency 6: Communicative Thinking


Chapter 16: Reason


Chapter 17: Connect


Chapter 18: Represent

Student Proficiency 7: Cognitive Transfer


Chapter 19: Synthesize


Chapter 20: Generalize


Chapter 21: Apply

Appendix A


Appendix B


Appendix C


Appendix D


Glossary


References & Resources


Index