Disciplinary & Interdisciplinary Studies

Thinking Connections: Learning to Think and Thinking to Learn

Thinking Connections includes step-by-step instructions and practical suggestions for teaching three strategies: Mental Management: A strategy that develops an awareness of how the thinking process works and presents a three-step method to control and improve thinking for any task in any subject. Decision-Making: A strategy that presents a series of three questions to be considered and answered in order to evaluate of make thoughtful decisions in or out of the classroom.Understanding through Design: A strategy that allows students to analyze and evaluate almost anything in a systematic way in order to discover its meaning and achieve a genuine understanding of it. Thinking Connections was designed to be used across the curriculum, beginning in upper elementary levels and continuing through teacher training. ISBN: 978-0201819984

Putting Understanding Up Front

A simple four-part framework gives teachers a language and strategy for enhancing their efforts to teach for greater understanding.

Multiple Intelligences: In a Nutshell

A description of the history and theory behind Multiple Intelligences.

Cultures of Thinking Initiative

The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The CoT initiative considers education to be a social and cultural endeavor whose goal is the development of both the individual and the group as effective learners and thinkers able to engage with and adapt to a changing world. Within this context the most important assessment question we can ask ourselves as educators is: Who are our students becoming as thinkers and learners as a result of their time with us?

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