Teaching and Learning Strategies for the Thinking Classroom

✍ Scribed by Crawford, Alan N;Saul, E Wendy

• Publisher: International Debate Education Association
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This resource for teachers in upper primary and secondary schools describes active learning strategies that help students develop critical thinking skills. Demonstration lessons, featuring sample interactions between teachers and students, illustrate how to use the approaches in specific disciplines. Included in the appendix are student and teacher performance standards and rubrics and some sample texts to provoke classroom discussion. The authors are affiliated with the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project, which has worked with more than 40,000 teachers in 29 countries. The volume is not indexed. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

✦ Table of Contents

SECTION 1: PRINCIPLES OF ACTIVE LEARNING AND CRITICAL THINKING --
SECTION 2: TEACHING METHODS AND STRATEGIES --
First core lesson: Learning information from text --
Second core lesson: Understanding narrative text --
Third core lesson: Cooperative learning --
Fourth core lesson: Conducting a discussion --
Fifth core lesson: Writing and inquiry --
Sixth core lesson: Writing to persuade --
Seventh core lesson: Understanding arguments --
Eighth core lesson: Critical listening --
SECTION 3: LESSON PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT --
Lesson planning --
Assessment --
SECTION 4: TEACHING IN AND ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES --
Literature study --
Mathematics --
Science --
The arts --
Interdisciplinary studies --
APPENDIX 1: STUDENT AND TEACHER PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND RUBRICS --
APPENDIX II: TEXTS FOR DISCUSSION --
Elephants and farmers --
The shilling --
Remembering Columbus --
Ivan and the seal skin --
Jack and the beanstalk --
Let's hear it for the smokers! --
Enhanced lecture in opposition to the Kyota Protocol --
On reducing greenhouse gas emissions --
The Three Billy Goats Gruff --
GLOSSARY.