How to Teach Thinking Skills: Seven Key Student Proficiencies for College and Career Readiness; Teaching Thinking Skills for Student Success in a 21st Century World - Softcover

James A. Bellanca; Robin J. Fogarty; Brian M. Pete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947604899 ISBN 13: 9781947604896

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2019

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

James A. Bellanca, president, Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools, helps redesign schools and classrooms to produce deeper learning outcomes. He is a senior fellow, The Partnership for 21st Century Learning, creator/first editor of P21's blog, and serves on the board of the International Society for Self-Directed Learning.

An award-winning author and editor promoting deeper learning strategies and assessments, Jim is passionate about integrating deeper-learning best practices into classrooms. His innovative program design and implementation of research-rich professional learning programs promote critical thinking and collaboration for every child. Jim collaborates with colleagues and district leaders to ensure that every innovation becomes a part of the school or district fabric.

Jim s most recent publications include Enriched Learning Projects, 21st Century Skills, Rethinking How Students Learn, and two Deeper Learning collections by nationally prominent authors. Currently, he posts on a learning blog at ilc21.org/blog and is completing manuscripts on Blueprints for Personalized Learning and Pathways to Deeper Learning Outcomes.

Robin J. Fogarty, PhD, president of Robin Fogarty & Associates, a Florida-based, minority-owned educational publishing/consulting company, is a leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom. Her doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University of Chicago has garnered invitations to work with educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction, and assessment strategies. She has taught at all levels from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the States and around the world. She is known as the teacher's teacher and has published over 30 books focused on rich, robust curriculum and relevant, rigorous instruction. In addition, her articles have appeared in Phi Delta Kappan, EL, the Middle School Journal and The Learning Professional. Her passion is linking brain science and learning through our human gifts of curiosity, creativity, and courage. Her most recent work epitomizes the essence of this highly metacognitive approach to teaching and learning.

Brian M. Pete, co-founder and CEO of Robin Fogarty & Associates, an educational consulting firm, is from DePaul University of Chicago. His rich background in professional development over the past 20 years as an author/presenter has taken him from the United States and the US Virgin Islands to Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, as well as to the kingdom of Bahrain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia. His work is provocative, passionate, and practical, presented with an unmistakable wit and humor that punctuates his sessions. Brian has an eye for the teachable moment and leaders who are in the know, and he has the words to describe what he sees as skillful educators. His publications include Data-Driven Decisions, The Adult Learner, Teaching for Transfer, Staff Room to Classroom, 2nd ed., Everyday PBL, Unlocking Student Talent, Metacognition: The Neglected Skill, and Thinking About Thinking: How We Know What We Know.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947604899
• ISBN 13: 9781947604896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 248