Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K3: How to Develop Sharp Mind [Hardcover]

In this comprehensive book based on sound science, Dr. Saifer offers many practical and engaging ways to develop students logical, critical, and creative thinking skills within nearly every lesson, in all subject areas, and throughout the day.

For educators who think that they cannot implement higher-order thinking with primary children, the author simply dispels the myth.?Using?real examples, snapshots, and the modeling of high expectations for the abilities of students, the author is very thorough and has considered thinking skills not normally implemented in a primary classroom.?Now more than ever students need to be able to think critically. Susan Jaroscak, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Maple Heights City Schools,?Ohio, USA

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Any educator would benefit from the research, examples and activities outlined in this book. I especially appreciated the book being broken into two sections and the delineation between theory and practice.?By the time I finished section one, I felt motivated to provide more higher order thinking activities. The most appealing feature of this book is that you can read about why higher order thinking is valuable and then immediately have a guidebook of how to get your students there. Kelly Carter, Early Childhood Education Specialist, Oklahoma, USA

Table of Figures

Meet the Author

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction

Part 1. Thinking about Thinking

Chapter 1. An Educational Imperative

Chapter 2. Types of Thinking Skills: The Tools in Our Head

Chapter 3. Lower-Order Thinking (LOT) Skills: Functional . . . If Not Always Fun

Chapter 4. Middle-Order Thinking (MOT) Skills: Only a Path, but the Only Path, to Wisdom