Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking: Demonstrating a Paradigm for Deep Educational Change

by Anat Zohar

Overview

This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this.

Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it discusses general issues pertaining to implementing deep, large-scale changes in the core of learning and instruction. The book emphasizes challenges related to professional development, assessment, achievement gaps, and the tension between knowledge and skills in 21^st century curricula. It summarizes insights the author has gained from approximately 25 years of engaging with these topics both as an academic and as a practitioner who led a national change process.

With a Forward by David Perkins

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031159695
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/31/2023
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor Anat Zohar holds the Besen Family Chair at the Seymour Fox School of Education, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is the director of the Center for Teachers’ Learning and Development at the Hebrew University. Her main research fields are the development of students' higher order thinking and metacognition, teachers' knowledge and professional development, and the challenges involved in scaling up instructional innovations across whole school systems. She has over 70 publications, including 8 books. Between 2006 -2009 she served as the Director of Pedagogical Affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Education, and led a pedagogical reform aimed at teaching for higher order thinking and deep understanding throughout the Israeli school curricula (k-12). In 2009-2010 she was a member in the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Since 2010 she is a faculty member in the Mandel Leadership Institute. She is currently chairing the Israeli committee “Adapting Curricula and Study Materials for the 21^st Century”.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: On Thinking-Based Teaching and Large-Scale Implementation.- Chapter 2: What and How to Teach in 21st Century Schools- Common Confusions Regarding Knowledge, Thinking, Pedagogy, and The Curriculum.- Chapter 3: Substantive Pedagogy and its Role in Deep large -Scale Change Processes.- Chapter 4: Teachers’ Knowledge: The Most Central Link in Substantive Pedagogy Change Processes.- Chapter 5: It’s Not All or Nothing - System-Wide Implementation of Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 6: Developing Students’ Thinking in Civic Education as an Example of Scaling-Up HOT Across the School System.- Chapter 7: Feedback from an Ongoing Reform: Analyzing the Implementation of the Meaningful Learning Reform in High School.- Chapter 8: Wide-Scale Implementation of Higher Order Thinking (HOT) in an Era of High Stakes Testing.- Chapter 9: The Implications of Serious Consideration of Substantive Pedagogy for Policy and Implementation of Deep Changes: Summary, Conclusions and Discussion.