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How to Teach Thinking Skills
Ensure your students develop the higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive. The latest edition of this best-selling book details a practical, three-phase teaching model and dives deep into standards-based lesson planning for seven essential student proficiencies.
Benefits
- 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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: Reproducibles
Appendix B: Additional Resources
Appendix C: Technology Applications by Chapter
Glossary
STUDY GUIDE
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- ABC Graffiti
- Book-Blurb Grid
- Comic Strip Template
- Figure 20.1: Assessing a Presentation Template
- Fishbone Diagram
- Four-Fold Concept Development
- KWL Chart
- Mathematics Grid
- Parts-of-Speech Grid
- Ranking Ladder
- Story Grid
Additional Technology Integration Lessons
- Chapter 2: Evaluate
- Chapter 3: Problem Solve
- Chapter 5: Associate
- Chapter 6: Hypothesize
- Chapter 8: Interpret
- Chapter 9: Determine
- Chapter 11: Infer
- Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast
- Chapter 14: Develop
- Chapter 15: Decide
- Chapter 16: Reason
- Chapter 17: Connect
- Chapter 19: Synthesize
- Chapter 21: Apply
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Bellanca, J. A. (2010). Enriched Learning Projects: A Practical Pathway to 21st Century Skills. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Bellanca, J. A. & Brandt, R. (Eds.). (2010). 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Burke, K. (2010). Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Fogarty, R. J. & Pete, B. M. (2010). Supporting Differentiated Instruction: A Professional Learning Communities Approach. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Hargreaves, A. & Fullan, M. (Eds.). (2009). Change Wars. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Sousa, D. A. (Ed.). (2010). Mind, Brain, and Education: Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
Introduction
- International Society for Technology in Education, “ISTE Standards”
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, “Principles and Standards”
Chapter 1
- ClassTools
- ClassTools, Diamond 9 model education game
- Common Core State Standards Initiative, “Texts Illustrating the Complexity, Quality, & Range of Student Reading K–5”
- Common Core State Standards Initiative, “Standard 10: Range, Quality, & Complexity”
- Eportfolio Resource Center, “Using Google Sites for Creating an ePortfolio”
- Google Docs
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
- Adobe Spark’s poster maker
- Canva
- Google Docs
- SmashingApps, “Nine Excellent (Yet Free) Online Word Cloud Generators”
- SurveyMonkey
- YouTube
- YouTube, “Anatomy of a Project: Kinetic Conundrum”
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 10
- Book Adventure
- Day One
- Houghton Mifflin Company, “Sequence Chart”
- ReadWriteThink
- ReadWriteThink, “Analyzing Character in Hamlet Through Epitaphs”
- ReadWriteThink, “Bio Cube”
- ReadWriteThink, “Drama Mapping”
- SurveyMonkey
Chapter 13
- Edraw, “Blank Tree Chart Template”
- Kentucky Virtual Library
- Random Word Generator
- Scholastic, “Grolier Online”
- Teacher Toolkit
- Teacher Toolkit, “3-2-1”
- Teacher Toolkit, “Gallery Walk”
- Thesaurus.com
- Vappingo, “86 Great Examples of Portmanteau”
- Wikipedia
Chapter 18
- Canva
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
- IdeaMerge, “European Road Signs and Traffic Signals”
- Math-Play, “Place Value Games”
- Sample Templates, “9 Sample Place Value Chart Templates to Download”
Chapter 20
- Creative Educator, “Digital Storytelling Lessons”
- Google Docs
- Google Slides
- Indeed, “22 Most Common Interview Questions and Best Answers (With Tips)”
- Indeed, “Resumes & Cover Letters”
- Interview Success Formula, “When You Master These 20 Questions, You Can Ace Any Interview and Land the Job of Your Dreams”
- MindQuest21
- The Paul Revere House
- Tech4Learning, “Get Started With Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom”
- YouTube, “Kid Eats Raw Onion Like It Was an Apple”
Appendix B
Technology Tools
- Audacity: A tool that offers a sound editor and recording software
- Classroom 2.0: A social media site and a collaborative network for educators that offers multiple tools
- ClassTools: A site that allows educators to create a variety of tools for classroom use
- CmapTools: A site that offers tools for creating concept maps
- Creaza: A site that offers a suite of online tools that students can use to create, publish, and share digital stories, in and out of school (The premium version has a fee.)
- ePals: An international K–12 social networking site with school mail, projects, and collaborations
- FreeMind: An open-source tool that offers mind-mapping software
- Goodreads: A social network for people who love books
- Google Docs
- Intel Education: Online courses that teachers can use to develop 21st century skills
- JumpStart: A site that offers 3-D virtual-world games
- Mind42: An online mind-mapping collaboration tool
- Moodle: A content management tool and community site for online learning
- Ning: An online service to create, customize, and share a social network
- Partnership for 21st Century Learning: A site that offers multiple resources to help schools transfer to a 21st century agenda
- Podbean: A podcast publishing and social subscribing site, which students can use to publish their own podcasts
- Poll Everywhere: A student response system
- ReadWriteThink: A site that offers online tools, tactics, and strategies to develop students’ CCSS-aligned language arts skills
- Second Life: A virtual world that offers avatars, chat, and online meetings
- SimCEO: A simulation site that students can use to create and operate their own companies while advancing financial literacy
- SurveyMonkey: Software for conducting online questionnaires and surveys, which can show results numerically or graphically
Websites
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
- Cooperative Learning Institute
- Education World, “National Standards”
- Educational Testing Service
- Edutopia
- International Renewal Institute
- International Society for Technology in Education Standards
- Khan Academy
- Learning Forward (formerly National Staff Development Council)
- Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
- National Education Technology Plan 2010
- New Tech Network
- PBLWorks
- ReadWriteThink
