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