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"Within this robust collection, the reader is soon privy to a noble and notable vision of schooling in which mindfulness permeates the metaphorical walls of the school and all of its structural components: the curriculum, the instruction, and the reflective practices of those immersed in the vision."
—From the Foreword by Robin Fogarty
"What is the next best thing to having the opportunity to be in one of Art Costa's presentations? It is clearly the opportunity to read and reread his work. He has a knack for making the theoretical understandable and the practical 'practice-able.'"
—Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant
"Art Costa has done more than anyone I can think of to advance the practical cause of more thoughtful education."
—David Perkins, Professor of Education
Harvard University
Create a culture where the process of thinking is the content of instruction!
This unique guide reflects the author's best and most recent research, theory, and practice for the teaching of thinking. Arthur L. Costa explains why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons, illustrates what the instruction of thinking looks like in the classroom, and identifies the curricular changes that can have the most positive impact. The text also examines:
Curriculum mapping efforts that support the teaching of thinking
Specific teaching behaviors that foster students' thinking processes
Cognitive coaching that encourages a high level of performance
Metacognitive mediations that connect immediate lessons to lifelong learning
Contents
Foreword by Robin Fogarty
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. The School as a Home for the Mind: A Vision of Mindfulness
1. The School as a Home for the Mind
2. Aesthetics: Where Thinking Originates
3. Habits of Mind: Learnings That Last
4. Launching Self-Directed Learners, With Bena Kallick
Part II. The Mind-Full Curriculum
5. Maturing Outcomes, With Robert J. Garmston
6. Mapping Forward
7. Changing Curriculum Means Changing Your Mind
8. Teaching for, of, and About Thinking
9. Five Thoughts for a More Though-Full Curriculum
Part III. Mindful Dialogue
10. Through the Lens of a Critical Friend, With Bena Kallick
11. Cognitive Coaching: Conversations That Mediate Self-Directedness, With Robert J. Garmston
12. Norms of Collaboration: Attaining Communicative Competence, With William Baker and Stanley Shalit
13. Getting Into the Habit of Reflection, With Bena Kallick
Part IV. Toward Mindful Instruction
14. What Goes on in Your Head When You Teach?
15. Do You Speak Cogitare?
16. Teacher Behaviors That Enable Student Thinking
17. Mediating the Metacognitive
Part V. The Mindful School: A Re-Vision
18. Creating a Culture of Mindfulness
19. Mind Workers Unite!
Index
