Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3

How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age

Steffen Saifer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-64918-4 (ISBN)

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To be truly educated today, students need more than knowledge; they need higher-order thinking skills. Critical and creative thinking is required to recognize and counter disinformation, to overcome thinking errors, and to be successful in school and life. To effectively teach these skills, we must start early, when young minds are still forming. While K–3 students are capable of higher-order thinking, most lessons engage only their lower-order thinking. 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. Teaching Higher-Order Thinking to Young Learners, K–3: How to Develop Sharp Minds for the Disinformation Age is key reading for any early childhood teacher, leader, or parent.

Steffen Saifer, EdD, a former teacher and administrator, is an international consultant and writer. He is the author of Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem: The Survival Guide for Early Childhood Professionals, now in its third edition.

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

Chapter 5. Higher-Order Thinking (HOT) Skills: Instruments of Insight, Innovation, and Invention

Chapter 6. Thought Processes: Common Tasks, Uncommon Thinking

Part 2. Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn

Chapter 7. Higher-order Thinking in Action: Supports and Challenges

Chapter 8. HOT Teaching Precepts: Head, Heart, and Humor

Chapter 9. HOT Teaching Methods: Context, Cognition, and Creativity

Chapter 10. HOT Instructional Supports: Sparks, Similes, and Smiles

Chapter 11. Teaching Reading and Writing with Higher-Order Thinking: Yearning to Learn

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	8 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-032-64918-6 / 1032649186
ISBN-13	978-1-032-64918-4 / 9781032649184
Zustand	Neuware