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Volume 5  |  Issue 23  |  August 19, 2010  
Fostering Thinking Skills for Today's Students
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A high-performing school district has added engineering requirements for its students. Proponents say this will help with creative-thinking skills, but critics argue that students might not be absorbing the curriculum.

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A new blog from the Alliance for Excellent Education covers a variety of education policy and news stories. One recent post compares the BP oil spill to high school dropout rates.

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Managing a class of 24 or 30 personalities requires a masterful ability to supervise group dynamics; focus on individuals; execute sound judgment; and, perhaps most of all, inspire, engage, and motivate children or young adults to learn with a forward-looking vision. This issue will share best practices and innovations for organizing materials, promoting collaboration for learning, teaching negotiating skills, and fostering a positive classroom culture.

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Fostering Thinking Skills for Today's Students

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In today's education system, getting students to learn how to think, analyze, and understand what they are learning is crucial to their mental development. If a student does not understand the curriculum and does not know how to think about it meaningfully, then the student is not truly learning. Educators need to know how to teach these skills and how to identify when a student is using them.

This issue of ASCD Express highlights a new Strategic Teacher PLC Guide, Compare and Contrast: Teaching Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning, as an example of how to teach thinking skills. This guide explores the basics of strengthening thinking skills and shows educators how to draw up and implement lesson plans and identify specific points to include in their curricula.

Other educators have contributed to this issue by offering their ideas on what works and what doesn't. Find out how you can improve your learning environment by ensuring students' minds are being molded in the best possible manner.

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Compare and Contrast: Teaching Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning

Compare and Contrast: Teaching Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning Harvey F. Silver's guide for educators shows how they can plan to strengthen students' thinking while teaching their lesson plans.

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A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem

Former high school teacher Greg Wheeler writes that a new approach to teaching thinking skills, the DSRP method, can enhance students' thinking and content understanding.

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The Thought-Filled Curriculum

In this Educational Leadership article, Art Costa proposes five themes educators should consider when developing curriculum to help students foster critical-thinking skills.

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Tools for Implementation

Learn How to Mold Your Students' Thinking Skills

How to Spiral Questions to Provoke Student Thinking   Activating the Desire to Learn
How to Spiral Questions to Provoke Student Thinking   Activating the Desire to Learn
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Learning to Think … Thinking to Learn: The Pathway to Achievement

Learning to Think … Thinking to Learn: The Pathway to Achievement A physics teacher shows how he combines strategies to guide students through lessons while also helping them use their own intellect to understand the subject matter.

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My Back Pages: Higher-Order Thinking Skills (1985, 1986)

Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues spent years studying people to come up with the foundation for "mastery learning." Read about their research, and decide if it still applies in today's classroom.

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Rethinking Five Paragraphs

Kate Glass A high school teacher encourages her students to break the five-paragraph essay mold and think independently and creatively about how they craft their writing.

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"Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise."

—Thomas Jefferson
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