Help your students become 21st century thinkers! Developed for grades 6-12, this resource provides teachers with strategies to build every student's mastery of high-level thinking skills, promote active learning, and encourage students to analyze, evaluate, and create. Model lessons are provided as they integrate strategy methods including questioning, decision-making, creative thinking, problem solving, and idea generating. This professional strategies notebook includes a Teacher Resource CD. This resource is correlated to the Common Core and other state standards and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Covers how to develop and use test questions and other assessments that reveal how well students can analyze, reason, solve problems, and think creatively.
It is important to start developing students’ higher-order thinking skills when they are young, and this book provides numerous strategies for doing so.
Promoting Rigor Through Higher Level Questioning equips teachers with effective questioning strategies and:
Distribute copies to students of the Starship Safari to the Stars activity sheets ( pages 243-244 ) . Have each group build its travel itinerary by recording their five destinations on the pages and by writing a description of the ...
Help your students become 21st century thinkers!
Uses practical and research-based approaches to improve students' higher-order thinking skills and includes strategies for differentiating higher-order thinking skills and developing them in English language learners.
Questioning Frank Williams developed a program that was designed to enrich curriculum for all students in the early 1970s. The Williams Model has three dimensions. The first dimension outlines subject-matter content such as mathematics, ...
This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory.
One of the foremost experts in the field shows why creative and practical intelligence, not IQ, are the best predictors of success in life--in a far-ranging book that is certain...
Day 2 5. Instruct student groups to evaluate their ideas from the previous day . They can cut these ideas apart and place ... Fact Finding : Tell students that they need to brainstorm how they will find out what flavors students want .