Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms

QG-logo.pngThe Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series emerged from the success of Creating Thinking Classrooms, a TC² resource that explores the key pedagogical principles and ideas that will best shape learning in the 21st century. Each title in the series focuses on practical strategies for developing deep understanding, real-life competencies, and thoughtful commitment by students. Useful for beginning and experienced teachers, the Quick Guides are designed to inspire and reinforce creative, critical, and collaborative thinking in students at every grade level.

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Assessing Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Reasoning Competencies

Assessing Mathematical Thinking presents a framework for effectively assessing and evaluating thinking in math. It shows how building assessment practices on a foundation of essential mathematical reasoning competencies provides a clearly defined, manageable, and consistent way to target assess…
Subjects: Mathematics
Grades: K, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Regular Price: $23.95

Building a Community of Thinkers

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to build a learning community in which high-quality thinking is modeled, supported and explicitly encouraged. 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: $12.95

Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to support student inquiry with questions and tasks that effectively promote critical, creative and collaborative thinking. 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: $12.95

Supporting All Learners: Creating the Conditions for Inclusive Classrooms

Designed to guide educators in taking an inclusive approach in all subjects and grades, Supporting All Learners provides simple but powerful starting points for creating inclusive classrooms. Through classroom strategies and examples, this resource provides guidance to help educators make everyday d…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $16.95

Teaching Students to Use Criteria

This resource clearly explains the importance of criteria in critical thinking. When students are invited to respond to critical questions, criteria enable them to carefully weigh the options and make reasoned judgments about those questions. The resource provides teachers with practical tools and s…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $14.95

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