How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core: 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards - Softcover

Bellanca, Dr James A; Fogarty, Dr Robin J; Pete, Dr Brian M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936764075 ISBN 13: 9781936764075

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2012

Synopsis

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student proficiencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer.

How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and achievement:

• Receive guidance on teaching higher-order thinking skills according to any given standard, including state standards and content-area standards.
• Learn how to weave thinking skills and technology into your existing teaching strategies and lesson plans.
• Understand how to adapt lessons for various grade levels and subjects.
• Gain questions to reflect on after lessons, to ensure that students learn at the highest levels and grow their problem solving and innovative thinking.
• Attain tools and reproducibles to facilitate learning and understanding of teaching critical thinking and other 21st century skills.

Contents:

Part I: Critical Thinking
Chapter 1: Analyze
Chapter 2: Evaluate
Chapter 3: Problem Solve

Part II: Creative Thinking
Chapter 4: Generate
Chapter 5: Associate
Chapter 6: Hypothesize

Part III: Complex Thinking
Chapter 7: Clarify
Chapter 8: Interpret
Chapter 9: Determine

Part IV: Comprehensive Thinking
Chapter 10: Understand
Chapter 11: Infer
Chapter 12: Compare and Contrast

Part V: Collaborative Thinking
Chapter 13: Explain
Chapter 14: Develop
Chapter 15: Decide

Part VI: Communicative Thinking
Chapter 16: Reason
Chapter 17: Connect
Chapter 18: Represent

Part VII: Cognitive Transfer
Chapter 19: Synthesize
Chapter 20: Generalize
Chapter 21: Apply

About this title

About the Author:

James A. Bellanca is the founder and CEO of International Renewal Institute, Inc. He is known for his cutting-edge program design and implementation of research-rich, standards-aligned professional learning programs for educators. He has worked with educational leaders in Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan, and also with school districts to design programs that promote critical thinking and collaboration to increase academic performance among all children, including high-risk student populations.

Robin J. Fogarty is president of the Chicago-based, minority-owned educational publishing and consulting firm RFA: A Robin Fogarty Company. She has taught in classrooms from kindergarten level through college and served as an administrator. She is the author or coauthor of more than 10 books, including From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development (with Brian M. Pete), which won a 2006 National Staff Development Council book award. She is a contributor to 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn and has written articles for Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, and the Journal of Staff Development.

She earned a doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University Chicago, a master's in instructional strategies from National-Louis University, and a bachelor's in early childhood education from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She is married to Brian Pete.

Brian M. Pete is cofounder of RFA: A Robin Fogarty Company. He is a skilled presenter on a variety of educational and leadership topics. He helps teachers transfer knowledge gained in the staff room into immediate and relevant classroom strategies. His educational videos include Best Practices: Classroom Management and Best Practices: Active Learning Classrooms. Brian is also the author of numerous resources. He coauthored From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development (with Robin Fogarty), which won a 2006 National Staff Development Council book award. He is also a contributor to 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn.

He earned a bachelor of science from DePaul University in Chicago and is pursuing a master's in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He is married to Robin Fogarty.

Review:

Written in a style reflecting the very thinking skills they adamantly support, Bellanca, Fogarty, and Pete prompt educators to think critically, creatively, and comprehensively about the complex realities of integrating the Common Core State Standards in each classroom. The practical and clear strategies they detail foster crisp communication and purposeful collaborative efforts to generate mindful and cognitively rigorous learning experiences. Adaptable for any setting, How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core should be in the library of professionals seeking a schoolwide approach to actualize this exciting national initiative. --Heidi Hayes Jacobs, President and Founder of Curriculum Designers, Inc.; Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute

The Common Core will only realize its full potential to prepare our students for 21st century challenges if it truly helps them develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. That will only happen if our teachers have concrete, practical tools to help them in that endeavor. This book is precisely that kind of tool. --Ken Kay, CEO, EdLeader21; Founding President, Partnership for 21st Century Skills

In this book, Jim, Robin, and Brian successfully expand on the key 4Cs of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. Their work should serve as key starting point for teachers who are taking on the challenge of preparing students to be college and career ready with rich and rigorous 21st century skills within the Common Core. --Timothy J. Magner, Executive Director of Partnership for 21st Century Skills

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936764075
• ISBN 13: 9781936764075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 221