Ebook Critical Thinking Across The Curriculum Developing Critical Thinking Skills Literacy And Philosophy In The Primary Classroom

Author : Mal Leicester
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335238807
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Critical Thinking across the Curriculum: Developing Critical Thinking Skills, Literacy and Philosophy in the Primary Classroom written by Mal Leicester and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting, practical book is an essential resource for every busy primary teacher and very easy to use in the classroom. It provides advice, original themed stories, critical learning activities and beautifully illustrated photocopiable resources for helping children to: Develop critical thinking skills Understand reason and knowledge in all the areas of the curriculum Draw on their natural wonder and curiosity, to engage in philosophical discussion. The photocopiable learning activities are differentiated for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, plus there are extension activities for enthusiastic, gifted and talented children. This fun resource will help your students practice generic skills, interdisciplinary skills which necessarily draw on several kinds of knowledge and understanding, and subject centred skills covering all areas of the curriculum in additional to the cross curricular values domains. Philosophy involves particular kinds of critical thinking and is also introduced in this book. Original, beautifully illustrated stories illuminate the abstract material, to make concrete and readily understandable the unfamiliar and complex ideas. Developing critical thinking skills has never been easier.

Author : Diane F. Halpern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317778375
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum written by Diane F. Halpern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider that many of the people who are alive today will be working at jobs that do not currently exist and that the explosion of information means that today's knowledge will quickly become outdated. As a result, two goals for education clearly emerge -- learning how to learn and how to think critically about information that changes at a rapid rate. We face a multitude of new challenges to our natural environment, difficult dilemmas concerning the use of weapons of mass destruction, political agendas for the distribution of scarce commodities and wealth, psychological problems of loneliness and depression, escalating violence, and an expanding elderly population. International in scope and in magnitude, these new problems strain resources and threaten the continuance of life on earth. To creatively and effectively attack these imminent problems, a well educated, thinking populace is essential. An abridged edition of Halpern's best-selling text, Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum is designed to help students enhance their thinking skills in every class. The skills discussed are needed in every academic area and setting -- both in and out of class. They are: determining cause; assessing likelihood and uncertainty; comprehending complex text; solving novel problems; making good decisions; evaluating claims and evidence; and thinking creatively. In this adaptation of her best-selling text, Diane Halpern applies the theories and research of cognitive psychology to the development of critical thinking and learning skills needed in the increasingly complex world in which we work and live. The book is distinguished by its clear writing style, humorous tone, many practical examples and anecdotes, and rigorous academic grounding. Everyday examples and exercises promote the transfer of critical thinking skills and dispositions to real-world settings and problems. The goal is to help readers recognize when and how to apply the thinking skills needed to analyze arguments, reason clearly, identify and solve problems, and make sound decisions. Also of importance, a general thinking skills framework ties the chapters together, but each is written so that it can "stand alone." This organization allows for maximum flexibility in the selection of topics and the order in which they are covered. This book is intended for use in any course emphasizing critical thinking as an approach to excellence in thinking and learning.

Author : Julie MacLusky
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335242804
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Teaching Creative Writing in the Primary School: Delight, Entice, Inspire! written by Julie MacLusky and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 15 years the Primary National Strategy and the standards-driven curriculum in teacher education have demonstrably improved the primary education of children in the UK. Yet there has been a growing awareness that creativity has been neglected. To address this, a range of initiatives have been launched to offer support for creativity in the primary curriculum. This book will provide teachers with a set of teaching strategies to provide children with a tool-kit of creative skills. This book suggests that a child, who might dislike a lesson on the correct use of grammar, will become excited by a lesson that involves using his or her own talents and experiences to create a story. Throughout the process of composing the story the child will attend to aspects of grammar in order to share their work with others. Results from the classroom research conducted using the exercises in this book suggest that the book has the power to enable teachers to engage pupils in writing lessons, who are often uninterested in classroom writing lessons. The book also includes: 20 creative writing templates for classroom activities A variety of exercises to help develop creative writing skills and build pupil confidence Detailed curriculum links Teaching Creative Writing in the Primary School is essential reading for all primary school teachers.

Author : Robert DiYanni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119154863
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 1 written by Robert DiYanni and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful strategies, tools, and techniques for educators teaching students critical reading skills in the humanities. Every educator understands the importance of teaching students how to read critically. Even the best teachers, however, find it challenging to translate their own learned critical reading practices into explicit strategies for their students. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum: Humanities, Volume 1 presents exceptional insight into what educators require to facilitate critical and creative thinking skills. Written by scholar-educators from across the humanities, each of the thirteen essays in this volume describes strategies educators have successfully executed to develop critical reading skills in students studying the humanities. These include ways to help students: focus actively re-read and reflect, to re-think, and re-consider understand the close relationship between reading and writing become cognizant of the critical importance of context in critical reading and of making contextual connections learn to ask the right questions in critical reading and reasoning appreciate reading as dialogue, debate, and engaged conversation In addition, teachers will find an abundance of innovative exercises and activities encouraging students to practice their critical reading skills. These can easily be adapted for and applied across many disciplines and course curricula in the humanities. The lifelong benefits of strong critical reading skills are undeniable. Students with properly developed critical reading skills are confident learners with an enriched understanding of the world around them. They advance academically and are prepared for college success. This book arms educators (librarians, high school teachers, university lecturers, and beyond) with the tools to teach a most paramount lesson.

Author : Edward D'Angelo
Publisher : B.R. Gruner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teaching of Critical Thinking written by Edward D'Angelo and published by B.R. Gruner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1971 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fernando Naiditch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475818947
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Critical Thinking written by Fernando Naiditch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical thinking requires a deep understanding of the topic at hand and the ability to look at content from diverse, and often unfamiliar, perspectives. Critical thinkers engage with material in innovative and creative ways to analyze, synthesize and assess it in order to reach their own informed conclusions. Critical Thinking: From Theory to Classroom Practice invites readers to revisit their pedagogy to promote this type of inquiry. Scholars and practitioners from several content areas introduce several examples of instructional strategies, classroom practices, and projects at multiple grade levels. Their experiences come together to highlight practical ways to foster students’ critical thinking skills and encourage them to engage in learning in new ways.

Author : June Main
Publisher : Critical Thinking Company
ISBN 13 : 9780894554223
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Critical Thinking Through Science written by June Main and published by Critical Thinking Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains standards-based activities for the physical sciences that help students learn the scientific method and develop analysis skills that can be applied to science and other subjects.

Author : Elisa Michals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781465247377
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Deep written by Elisa Michals and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerald M. Nosich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780132683593
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Think Things Through written by Gerald M. Nosich and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Freshman Orientation or Critical Thinking courses as well as a supplementary text for use in any subject-matter at any educational level. This concise, effective guide is designed to help students learn to think critically in any subject-matter. Learning to Think Things Through presents a combination of instruction and exercises that shows the reader how to become active learners rather than passive recipients of information, use critical thinking to more fully appreciate the power of the discipline they are studying, to see its connections to other fields and to their day-to-day lives, and to maintain an overview of the field so they can see the parts in terms of the whole. The model of critical thinking (used throughout the book) is in terms of the elements of reasoning, standards, and critical thinking processes. This model is well-suited to thinking through any problem or question. The 4th edition reflects streamlined writing, with changes and substantial edits on virtually every page.

Author : Peter Worley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472916107
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 lessons to get children thinking: Philosophical thought adventures across the curriculum written by Peter Worley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the type of book many teachers will keep on their desk and use the exercises very regularly; for me it is up there with Geoff Petty's 'Evidence-Based Teaching' and Paul Ginnis's 'The Teacher's Toolkit' as an essential resource. Worley is an excellent clear writer, who communicates very complex ideas very well.” Francis Gilbert [http://www.francisgilbert.co.uk/], teacher, teacher trainer and author of ' I'm a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here' Inspire your class to think more deeply about curriculum subjects and get them actively taking part in exciting philosophy experiments today! This new book by bestselling author and founder of The Philosophy Foundation Peter Worley is a collection of practical lesson and activity plans to use in the primary classroom to get children thinking philosophically and creatively around different curriculum areas. The sessions - called thought adventures - use thought experiments, stories and poems to get children discussing and understanding topics more deeply. Each session is explained step-by-step, with everything you need to 'do' and 'say' spelled out, and all the equipment you need listed with instructions on how to set up each session. You can implement the sessions in the classroom either as a complete lesson or as an activity within another lesson. All the sessions are tried and tested by Peter and his colleagues at The Philosophy Foundation who work with primary schools on a regular basis.