Description
Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda. This innovative ‘agenda’ called for teaching students in ways that dramatically improved the quality of their thinking. Its context is a variety of changes in education that brought the explicit teaching of thinking to the consciousness of more and more teachers and administrators.
Table of Contents
Foreword. Preface. 1. Promise and Possibilities 2. Thinking and Its Improvement 3. Kinds of Thinking 4. Infusing Teaching Thinking into Regular Subject-area Instruction 5. Choosing and Using Separate Instructional Programs Designed to Teach Thinking 6. Constructing a Program for Teaching Thinking in Classroom or School: Choices about Thinking Goals 7. How Teachers Relate to Teaching Thinking: Lesson Design and Instructional Strategies 8. Support Systems for Teachers and Schools to Teach Thinking Effectively 9. Approaches to Evaluation 10. Types of Tests.
