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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
Brain-Mind: Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds
Brain-Mind: Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds
Editors' Introduction
As Lisa Dellamora gave us a global view of the political and personal need for shifting toward schools based on the development of student thinking, Kim Williams in this chapter zooms in to a view a smaller, complex globe: the brain. Given our rapidly expanding understanding about brain development through the neuroscience research of the past decades and linked to our longer history of behavioral cognitive sciences, we now know, unequivocally, that the human brain has a dynamic plasticity, evolving and adapting in ways we never imagined. We interact through our minds and bodies in the world, patterned by our quietly humming brain, in a dance of complexity and beauty. The chapter before ...
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