Practical Strategies For The Teaching Of Thinking

`Frangenheim aims to lead teachers and learners out of their ''comfort zone'' towards the goal of independent learning. His classrooms must be exciting places for both groups' - Debate This book is designed specifically to create a more successful classroom climate in which all students are empowered to be better thinkers. The four main parts of this book deal with - Beliefs about the thinking classroom - Strategies for Analysis and Evaluation - Strategies for Creative Thinking - Strategies for Co-operative Thinking There is also a bonus section in which the author has supplied a large range of posters for the classroom dealing with the subjects above. Everything in this book was forged and tested in the classroom. It is a book about teaching, by teachers, for teachers. It is designed to encourage passion for teaching with an eye on that important ingredient FUN. Teachers are invited to reflect on how the ideas in this book can complement what they do in the classroom, curriculum meetings and staff meetings. Enjoy it!

Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning equips teachers with effective questioning strategies and:

A series of ideas and thinking tools based on Bloom's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain. Drawn from Eric Frangenheim's 40 plus years as a teacher

Teaching our children to think and reason mathematically is a challenge, not because students can't learn to think mathematically, but because we must change our own often deeply-rooted teaching habits. This is where instructional routines come in. Their predictable design and repeatable nature support both teachers and students to develop new habits. In Teaching for Thinking, Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta pick up where their first book, Routines for Reasoning, left off. They draw on their years of experience in the classroom and as instructional coaches to examine how educators can make use of routines to make three fundamental shifts in teaching practice: Focus on thinking: Shift attention away from students' answers and toward their thinking and reasoning Step out of the middle: Shift the balance from teacher-student interactions toward student-student interactions Support productive struggle: Help students do the hard thinking work that leads to real learning With three complete new routines, support for designing your own routine, and ideas for using routines in your professional learning as well as in your classroom teaching, Teaching for Thinking will help you build new teaching habits that will support all your students to become and see themselves as capable mathematicians.

"Everyone needs to know how to think, and it is difficult to find a teaching resource that provides practical strategies for teaching students how to nurture various thinking skills. Janelle Wills' Thinking Protocols for Learning fills this gap by providing a comprehensive guide on teaching thinking skills to students. A few of the skills covered in the book are critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem-solving, and there is also a chapter on metacognition, which provides a strong foundation for the thinking skills to be built on. All of this is presented in an accessible way, so teachers can quickly and efficiently implement the strategies into their classrooms. Teachers need to know how to teach thinking, and Thinking Protocols for Learning has made it easier than ever"--