Full Description
Teaching 21 Thinking Skills for the 21st CenturyK-12 teachers, administrators, staff development coordinators, and school psychologists practical, hands-on help for developing students' thinking skills across the curriculum and shows educators how to help students use the information they gain to solve problems and innovate new solutions in today's diverse and challenging classrooms and world. The book details 21 essential and critical thinking skills, using case examples from real classroom and multiple video clips to illustrate the concepts, and includes over 100 classroom strategies to augment and support the examples of the mediation presented in the MiCOSA Model.
Contents
&>PART I: CONTEXTUAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKSCHAPTER 1. THE MiCOSA MODEL and ITS 21ST CENTURY CONTEXTS 21st Century ContextsIntroducing the MiCOSA ModelCore Components of the MiCOSA ModelCHAPTER 2. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE and CULTURAL GROUNDING The Power of Personal NarrativeActivating and Using Prior Knowledge and Cultural Grounding Motivation, Mediation, and Meaning in Diverse ClassroomsSupporting the Development of Your Own StoryCHAPTER 3. MEDIATING CONVERSATIONS for ENHANCED THINKINGIntent and ReciprocityMediating MeaningBridging ThinkingGuiding Self-RegulationBuilding CompetenceCHAPTER 4. THINKING SKILLS for GATHERING INFORMATIONSystematic SearchFocus and AttentionLabels, Words, and ConceptsMultiple Sources Position in SpacePosition in TimePrecision and AccuracyCHAPTER 5. THINKING SKILLS for TRANSFORMING INFORMATIONGoal SettingPlanningComparingOrdering, Grouping, and CategorizingFinding Connections and RelationshipsVisualizingInferringCause and Effect -- HypothesizingSummarizingCHAPTER 6. THINKING SKILLS for COMMUNICATING INFORMATIONLabels, Words, and Concepts Precision and Accuracy Appropriate PragmaticsFeedback for Self-RegulationCollaborationPART III: IMPLEMENTING MiCOSA CHAPTER 7. CONTENT, CURRICULUM, and STANDARDS: FINDING the THINKING SKILLS and WRITING OBJECTIVESLocating Explicit Thinking SkillsLocating Implicit Thinking SkillsThinking Skills Underlying Common Terms in StandardsFinding Patterns in StandardsFrom Standards to Thinking Skills and Content ObjectivesCHAPTER 8. TEACHING for TRANSFER: GETTING to the BIG IDEASDifferentiating Near and Far Transfer of LearningUnderstanding and Using Big IdeasTeaching for Transfer with MiCosaCHAPTER 9 THE POWER of ASSESSMENTWhat Assessments Inform Student Understanding?Supporting Student Involvement in AssessmentUsing Feedback in Formative AssessmentA Synthesis of the Assessment Components MiCOSA'S Teacher's Guide to Planning InstructionMiCOSA Lesson Planning FormatsSelf-EvaluationPART IV: MOTIVATING TOMORROW'S LEARNINGCHAPTER 11 ENGAGING EXPECTATIONS and PROMOTING RESILIENCETeacher Expectations and Student ResilienceRaising Student Self-ExpectationsExpectations of Parents: Re-Thinking Parent InvolvementAPPENDIX B MiCOSA STUDENT THINKING SKILLS SURVEYAPPENDIX C STUDENT THINKING SKILLS ORGANIZERAPPENDIX D PARENT/TEACHER THINKING SKILLS INTERVIEW/QUESTIONNAIRE
