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Creating Thinking Classrooms

Navigate the opportunities and challenges of current reform initiatives by focusing on three important shifts: reorienting to a thinking classroom; attending to enriched goals; and aligning practices with key principles of 21st century learning. Please note: Corwin has published a U.S. version of…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $32.95
Format: Print

Teaching Geographical Thinking (Revised and expanded edition)

Engage students in geographical thinking through critical inquiry using a solid framework of interrelated concepts, examples, questions and criteria. Also available in French: Enseigner la pensée géographique
Subjects: Social Studies, Geography
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $26.95
Format: Print

Bringing critical thinking to the main stage

Roland Case critiques current teaching of critical thinking and proposes a more productive, curriculum-embedded approach.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Teaching Historical Thinking (Revised and expanded edition)

Introduce students to six interrelated concepts central to their ability to think critically about history using clear explanations of each concept, teaching suggestions for applying them throughout the curriculum and an extended teaching example.
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $39.95
Format: Print

Using Thoughtbooks to Sustain Inquiry

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to help students use the Thoughtbook format to capture their thinking and to revisit and refine their evolving work. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $14.95
Format: Print

Reconciling learning the ‘basics’ and inquiry teaching

In this article, the staff of The Critical Thinking Consortium seek to explain how learning the basics and inquiry teaching can be reconciled.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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