How to Teach Thinking Skills

ebook Seven Key Student Proficiencies for College and Career Readiness (Teaching Thinking Skills for Student Success in a 21st Century World)

By James A, Bellanca

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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

    How to Teach Thinking Skills