Author: Sue Cowley
Publisher: Viva Books
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 186
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0826464688
Description
Within this book you’ll find lots of information, ideas and approaches to help you develop your students’ thinking skills. As with all books, of the author, his aim here is to give you practical strategies for developing these skills, ones that you can actually put directly into use in your classroom
As well as offering you suggestions for exercises and activities, he also covers the organizational aspects of teaching thinking in a classroom setting. The advice that he gives will be applicable to teachers right across the primary and secondary spectrum, and for those who are working in all different areas of the curriculum.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Thinking: An Overview
Thinking: Concentration, Behaviour and Learning
Planning and Teaching Thinking
Structuring Thinking
Memory
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Thinking and Ideas
A Final Thought
Index