The Thinking Teacher's Toolkit: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives

by Ruth Matthews, Jo Lally

Overview

Designed to provide a complete guide for teachers of thinking skills, reasoning and critical thinking to 14-19 age groups, everything you could need to be a thinking teacher is packed into The Thinking Teacher's Toolkit, including:

• an introduction to what thinking skills are, why you are equipped to teach them and how you can apply your previous experience
• clear approaches to preparing to teach, whether you are a coordinator seeking guidance on setting up a thinking skills course from scratch, a thinking teacher putting together thought-provoking lesson plans or a subject teacher looking for ideas on integrating critical thinking skills across the curriculum; and
• advice on how to handle assessment, including information on a variety of qualifications available internationally.

In addition, there is a companion website containing tools for developing your professional expertise, answers to frequently asked questions, handouts for pupils and PowerPoint's to use in the sample lessons. This is the ultimate toolkit for any teacher wanting to improve their students reasoning and problem-solving skills.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441125712
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/02/2010
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ruth Matthews is 14-19 Strategy Development Officer at Telford and Wrekin Council, UK. She has taught Key Stage 4 courses and in further and higher education. She has over 15 years' experience of working for leading UK and international awarding bodies, including developing assessment and teaching materials for thinking skills qualifications.

Jo Lally is a freelance education consultant based in the UK.

Table of Contents

Key to Icons vi

Introduction 1

Part 1 Tools for Teaching 5

Introduction to Part 1 6

1 The Starting Point 8

2 Approaches to Teaching Thinking and Reasoning Skills 28

3 Planning a Course 51

4 Planning a Lesson 69

5 Resource Planning 90

Part 2 Tools for Enriching Achievement 108

Introduction to Part 2 109

6 Background and Benefits 110

7 Integrating the Skills 129

Part 3 Tools for Assessment 161

Introduction to Part 3 162

8 Preparing for Assessment 163

9 Managing the Assessment Process 184

Endnotes 192

References 194

Index 197