Full Description
Give students the essential thinking skills they need to thrive.
Content-focused teaching may yield marginal improvements in test scores, but leaves students without the cognitive skills and dispositions for success in an information-overloaded world that requires deep thinking, collaborative problem solving, and emotional intelligence.
David Hyerle has brought exciting models for enabling students to drive their own thinking and learning to schools in every corner of the world, with outstanding results. In this book, Hyerle presents case studies of schools and educators who have applied these models, in some cases system-wide, to ensure every student can thrive in an increasingly complex future. Among his powerful concepts for short and long-term improvement are:
Visual Tools for Thinking—The nonlinguistic tools that have made Hyerle's famous "Thinking Maps" model so successful
Dispositions for Mindfulness—a language for students to improve their intellectual-emotional behaviors as they learn
Questioning for Inquiry—A system for developing students' abilities to ask questions in the context of a developing Community of Inquiry, including the use of Bloom's revised Taxonomy and the Six Hats Thinking® model
Ultimately, Pathways to Thinking Schools synthesizes the potential of smart content-based teaching with the powerful thinking skills and dispositions that supercharge the educational experience.
"In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally."
—Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer
National Urban Alliance
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword by Yvette Jackson
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1. Catalyst: Thinking Schools as a Catalyst for Transformational Change
2. Imperative
Working to Avoid Intellectual Apartheid - Elizabeth Dellamora
Questions for Enquiry
3. Brain-Mind
Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds - Kimberly Williams
Questions for Enquiry
4. Criteria
Criteria for a Thinking Schools Approach - Bob Burden
Questions for Enquiry
5. Journey
Journey Toward Becoming a Thinking School - Gill Hubble
Questions for Enquiry
6. School
The Tree of Learning - Richard Coe
Questions for Enquiry
7. System
A System-Wide Vision for Thinking - Donna J. DeSiato and Judy Morgan
Questions for Enquiry
8. Language
Thinking Language Learners - Estee Lopez and Larry Alper
Questions for Enquiry
9. Coaching
Improving the Quality of Teaching Through Visual Coaching and Supervision - Kathy Ernst
Questions for Enquiry
10. Leading
Leading Connectively - Larry Alper and David Hyerle
Questions for Enquiry
11. Country
Thinking Schools Ethiopia - Robert Seth Price and Bereket Aweke
Questions for Enquiry
Appendix
Index
