ABSTRACT

From the vantage of new cognitive theory, this book manages to integrate the thinking skill mission across the full range of formal instruction, from K through graduate school. It explores and prioritizes thinking skill aims at each instructional level, and then details how classroom practice can adjust to achieve those aims.

This guide leads to solid ground, perspective and technique for the individual teacher at any level who wants to enhance thinking skill development. It will prove indispensable to those planning curriculum with a thinking skill emphasis.

chapter

Cui Bono?

chapter

In Memory

chapter

Guidelines

chapter Chapter 1|9 pages

Thinking Skills at Issue

chapter Chapter 2|12 pages

Thinking Skills

chapter Chapter 3|9 pages

Learners and How They Tick

chapter Chapter 4|21 pages

The Primary Agenda

chapter Chapter 5|9 pages

Transference and Recording

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

Phase One ETSI

chapter Chapter 7|27 pages

Phase Two ETSI

chapter Chapter 8|29 pages

Elementary PIE

chapter Chapter 9|15 pages

Composition: C = A + d

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Two Spectives — Retro and Per

chapter Chapter 11|15 pages

The Secondary/Collegiate Agenda

chapter Chapter 12|41 pages

Extending ETSI

chapter Chapter 13|23 pages

Secondary/Collegiate PIE

chapter Chapter 14|11 pages

Notes on Evaluation and Experiment

chapter Chapter 15|9 pages

Theory, and Other Concluding Issues