ABSTRACT
This chapter and the one that follows examine the research base for two closely related topics, teaching for intelligence and thinking skills. Any decision to separate them into two parts is to some extent rather arbitrary. There is overlap, to be sure. However, the topic of teaching thinking skills seems to have taken on tactical forms that are manifest in specific, often commercial, concrete programs, whereas teaching for intelligence represents a more strategic, generic set of ideas about teaching and learning. This chapter contains several views of the broad construct of intelligence and methods that have been used to bring these ideas to the classroom. Chapter 9 presents specific efforts that are being made to teach those elusive mental processes called thinking skills.
