Making Everyday Choices (eBook)

Helping Students in Grades 2-5 Practice the Art of Thinking

Lin Josephson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
145 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4081-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on helping children become self-reliant thinkers and decision-makers. The exercises are “practice runs” to be presented in a casual atmosphere where students share their thinking and receive educator guidance. Educators will learn that observing their students’ thinking processes can provide insight into their decision-making.

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This book will serve as a ';Think Button' for any educator who has ever heard a student say, ';I can't think' or ';I can't decide!' Fifty prompts or thinking conduits are the catalysts that will give students a chance to practice thinking. The prompts (many with option answers) are formatted as brief stories, exercises, poems, and activities and are designed so kids can use the same thinking skill sets that are essential in making everyday decisions.Whether the prompts pose silly questions, ';Would you rather bathe a gorilla or take an elephant for a walk?' or practical ones, ';What's the best way to express your opinion?' they are all crafted to spur children to think hard and sensibly so they can make levelheaded decisions and defend their thinking in a stress-free think forum environment.The intention is for students to take the essence of something they've learned from a prompt and adapt it, stretch it, and use it to help solve a problem or make a tough decision. Every prompt comes with guidance, explanations, and suggestions so educators can clarify why certain options or decisions are better than others, and respond to thinking choices and decisions students may have made.

Autor

Lin Josephson is a former business journalist and first grade teacher. She is a Philosophy for Children Practitioner, endorsed by The Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (Montclair State University) and a 2013-2014 recipient of a PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) Award for excellence in philosophy teaching by a non-classroom teacher. She is the author of several language arts and science workbooks and has written freelance articles for such publications as Barron’s and The Chicago Tribune.

Inhalt

Preface: Why?Acknowledgments: Thank youIntroduction: HowChapter 1: Do’s & Don’tsChapter 2: One Step AheadBuy Now . . . Uh Oh . . . No Time?SimplifyThe Dreaded HomeworkTipping the ScalesChapter 3: Action Figures“No Thanks”Which Way?Rain, Rain, RainSick to Your StomachAdults Make Decisions, tooChapter 4: Opinion LabBack It Up . . .The Majority RulesOpen MindsFill-in-the-BlanksShould I or Shouldn’t I?Honest Opinion?Chapter 5: StreamliningStuffWrite About “Anything”Too Many Library Books!Recipe for FriendshipMixed UpZeroing InPick a Number, Any Number!Chapter 6: Side By SideMeet the InventorsGorilla or Elephant?Juggling ActSix WordsMe, Me, & MeWhat’s In a Name?Take Me to Your LeaderWho Says I’m Bossy?Companion Sidebar on BrainstormingChapter 7: Don’t Jump!Is Seeing Believing?Scrumptious!Fair or Unfair?How Does Your Garden Grow?Race in the ParkWhat’s Inside?Chapter 8: Huh? What Did You Say?Better Safe Than SorryThe Early Bird Gets the WormDon’t Bite Off More Than You Can ChewDon’t Count Your Chickens Before They HatchHaste Makes WasteTwo Heads Are Better Than oneChapter 9: How Did This Happen?Oh, That Little VoiceWalking the DogWho Did It?We CanYou Never KnowImagine IfCause and No EffectChapter 10: Words of Wisdom: From the ExpertsChapter 11: Food for Thought: A Menu for EducatorsLeave It AloneOutside the CocoonIn My OpinionWhat Do I Really Think?CounterproductiveGetting FullWrong Foot ForwardCut It DownWho Me?Before It Spirals . . .About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: critical thinking • Decision Making • Elementary School • Exercises • Mindfulness • Philosophy • philosophy and children • Philosophy and education • philosophy for kids • professional development • self reliant • student mindfulness • teaching mindfulness • Teaching Philosophy • teaching thinking • Thinkers • Thinking Skills
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4081-0 / 1475840810
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4081-0 / 9781475840810