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Hot skills : developing higher-order thinking in young learners /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saifer, Steffen, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Thought and thinking > Study and teaching > Activity programs.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Thinking about thinking
  • Types of thinking skills: the tools in our head
  • Lower-order thinking (lot) skills: functional...if not always fun
  • Middle-order thinking (mot) skills: the logical path to wisdom
  • Higher-order thinking (hot) skills: turning notes into music
  • Critical-thinking skills: more than meets the eye
  • Creative-thinking skills: he sky's the limit
  • Key thinking processes
  • Choose/make decisions
  • Solve problems
  • Plan/strategize
  • Analyze
  • The importance and function of hot skills; more innovation, less imitation
  • Learning to think, thinking to learn
  • Guiding principles for hot teaching and learning: rigor and joy
  • Hot strategies for hot teaching: serious fun
  • Cooperative, collaborative, and social learning
  • Hot themes
  • Projects and investigations: inquiry in action
  • Materials that matter
  • Play: from playing with props to playing with ideas
  • Thinking games
  • Case studies
  • Mental flossers
  • Role plays and sketches
  • Hot techniques for hot teaching: intentional and playful
  • Choices
  • Scaffolds for higher-order thinking
  • Cues
  • Modeling/demonstrating
  • Idioms and aphorisms
  • Analogies, similes, and metaphors
  • Hot questions: "roses and thorns"
  • Sparks
  • "Heating" an activity
  • Teaching reading and writing using higher-order thinking: yearning to learn
  • References
  • Index
  • Table of figures.