How to Teach Thinking Skills

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