Full Description
To be truly educated today, students need more than knowledge; they need higher-order thinking skills. Critical and creative thinking is required to recognize and counter disinformation, to overcome thinking errors, and to be successful in school and life. To effectively teach these skills, we must start early, when young minds are still forming. While K-3 students are capable of higher-order thinking, most lessons engage only their lower-order thinking. In this comprehensive book based on sound science, Dr. Saifer offers many practical and engaging ways to develop students' logical, critical, and creative thinking skills within nearly every lesson, in all subject areas, and throughout the day. Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K-3: How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age is key reading for any early childhood teacher, leader, or parent.
Contents
Table of Figures
Meet the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Thinking about Thinking
Chapter 1. An Educational Imperative
Chapter 2. Types of Thinking Skills: The Tools in Our Head
Chapter 3. Lower-Order Thinking (LOT) Skills: Functional . . . If Not Always Fun
Chapter 4. Middle-Order Thinking (MOT) Skills: Only a Path, but the Only Path, to Wisdom
Chapter 5. Higher-Order Thinking (HOT) Skills: Instruments of Insight, Innovation, and Invention
Chapter 6. Thought Processes: Common Tasks, Uncommon Thinking
Part 2. Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn
Chapter 7. Higher-order Thinking in Action: Supports and Challenges
Chapter 8. HOT Teaching Precepts: Head, Heart, and Humor
Chapter 9. HOT Teaching Methods: Context, Cognition, and Creativity
Chapter 10. HOT Instructional Supports: Sparks, Similes, and Smiles
Chapter 11. Teaching Reading and Writing with Higher-Order Thinking: Yearning to Learn
Index
