Teaching Reasoning: Activities and Games for the Classroom - Softcover

Laurel Hecker; Julia A. Simms; Ming Lee Newcomb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990345815 ISBN 13: 9780990345817

Publisher: Marzano Research, 2015

Synopsis

Teach students essential skills with engaging activities. In each chapter, you ll explore a key reasoning skill from the Common Core State Standards or Next Generation Science Standards and discover fun, research-based games and activities to help teach them to students. You ll also find strategies for effectively incorporating these tools into your classroom to help prepare students for academic and lifetime success.

Benefits

-Help students develop the ability to critically analyze evidence and draw valid conclusions.

-Refine students' reasoning skills-using a combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning-to help them prosper in 21st century colleges and workplaces.

-Gain classroom games and activities to support reasoning lessons.

-Provide students with the tools to reinforce their reasoning and relay complex information.

About this title

About the Author:

Laurel Hecker is a production editor for Marzano Research in Denver, Colorado. She has written and edited across a range of topics and formats, including articles for the Cipher news magazine, website and social media content for local businesses, research reports, and creative pieces. She also has experience guiding and teaching outdoor skills to girls as a Girl Scout counselor. She is a graduate of Colorado College, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English with a concentration in poetry writing.

Julia A. Simms is director of publications for Marzano Research in Denver, Colorado. She has worked in K 12 education as a classroom teacher, gifted education specialist, teacher leader, and coach, and her books include Coaching Classroom Instruction, Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction and Assessment, Vocabulary for the Common Core, Questioning Sequences in the Classroom, A Handbook for High Reliability Schools, and Teaching Argumentation: Activities and Games for the Classroom. She received her bachelor s degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and her master s degrees in educational administration and K 12 literacy from Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado, respectively.

Ming Lee Newcomb is an editorial assistant and staff writer at Marzano Research in Denver, Colorado. She has experience mentoring groups of students at the high school level and tutoring students at the elementary and post-secondary level. She served as an editor for Leviathan Magazine, and has researched and written education policy briefs for the National Conference of State Legislatures and articles for the Catalyst Newspaper. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English with a concentration in fiction writing from Colorado College.

Review:

Teaching students how to think and reason is critically important if schools are to bring significant improvements to the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to tackle the demands of 21st century schooling where students are expected to work with knowledge, explore ideas, collaborate, and adjust with flexibility to changing situations. In Teaching Reasoning: Activities and Games for the Classroom, authors Laurel Hecker, Julia A. Simms, and Ming Lee Newcomb build on the extensive research of Dr. Robert J. Marzano to produce a range of evidence-based activities to teach thinking and reasoning to students. The instructional strategies presented are designed to engage students in a series of academic games with an element of friendly controversy, but with the underlying purpose of explicitly teaching them how to think and reason. For teachers who want practical activities that can be used in classrooms to teach these skills, this book contains a wealth of ideas that will motivate students and engage them in learning. --Robyn M. Gillies, professor of education, University of Queensland

About this edition

• Publisher: Marzano Research
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0990345815
• ISBN 13: 9780990345817
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 312