How to Teach Thinking Skills
Seven Key Student Proficiencies for College and Career Readiness, Second Edition
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.
Teaching thinking skills for student success in a 21st century world.
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.
“How to Teach Thinking Skills is a step-by-step approach to not only the teaching of thinking skills but implementing them as well. 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.”