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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
Leading: Leading Connectively
Leading: Leading Connectively
Editors' Introduction
Every year there are hundreds of books written on leadership within and across every field, but especially in the business world, having the additive effect of tens of thousands of texts on leadership lined up in professional libraries over the past few decades. Institutes on leadership abound with many focused on a combination of inspiration, collaboration, and the ambiguous negotiation of leadership roles in society. One of the groundbreaking books that had ripple effects across education, Leadership and the New Sciences, was written by Meg Wheatley in the early 1990s. She drew from an array of sources and offered that we could draw from our understanding of physics and nonlinear “systems” to shift how we interact ...
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