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Brown, Patrick – NSTA Press, 2021
"Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 9-12" is the one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine your approach to high school physical science. The book discusses the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate) as a specific pathway for teaching and learning. It also shows how simple shifts in the way you arrange and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Physical Sciences, Grade 9
Portnoy, Lindsay – ASCD, 2019
Students become attentive, curious, and passionate about learning when they can see its relevance to their lives and when they're empowered to use that learning to solve problems that matter. Regardless of the subject or grade level you teach, you can infuse your instruction with the meaning students crave by implementing design thinking. Design…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Student Motivation, Student Interests, Teaching Methods
Bers, Marina Umaschi – MIT Press, 2022
Today, schools are introducing STEM education and robotics to children in ever-lower grades. In "Beyond Coding," Marina Umaschi Bers lays out a pedagogical roadmap for teaching code that encompasses the cultivation of character along with technical knowledge and skills. Presenting code as a universal language, she shows how children…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods, Moral Values
Waring, Scott M.; Hartshorne, Richard – Teachers College Press, 2020
Engaging students with primary sources fosters inquiry, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning skills, all of which are vitally important to success in school and beyond. Simply inserting primary sources into the classroom is not enough. This resource uses the best of emerging Internet applications (Web 2.0) to capture the interest of today's…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Resource Materials, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Lanning, Lois A.; Brown, Tiffanee – Corwin, 2019
A Concept-Based Curriculum is designed to help students uncover important, transferable understandings about what it means to be a capable reader, writer, speaker, viewer, listener, and thinker. But, too often, a well-designed, conceptual curriculum does not translate into conceptual teaching. "Concept Based Literacy Lessons" helps…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Curriculum, Concept Formation, Instructional Design
Erickson, H. Lynn; Lanning, Lois A.; French, Rachel – Corwin, 2017
Knowing the facts is not enough. If we want students to develop intellectually, creatively problem-solve, and grapple with complexity, the key is in "conceptual understanding." A Concept-Based curriculum recaptures students' innate curiosity about the world and provides the thrilling feeling of engaging one's mind. This updated edition…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Concept Formation, Problem Solving
Beghetto, Ronald A., Ed.; Sriraman, Bharath, Ed. – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions that researchers and educators face when…
Descriptors: Creativity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Creative Thinking
Nero, Shondel; Ahmad, Dohra – Routledge Research in Education, 2014
This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools. The book is divided into two parts, with the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Applied Linguistics, Case Studies, Higher Education
Schackow, Joy Bronston; O'Connell, Susan – Heinemann, 2008
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM's) Process Standards support teaching that helps students develop independent, effective mathematical thinking. The books in the Heinemann Math Process Standards Series give every middle grades math teacher the opportunity to explore each standard in depth. The series offers friendly,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, National Standards
Collins, Allan – 1976
A theory of Socratic tutoring was developed in the form of pattern-action rules for a computer program. The rules were derived from analyses of a variety of tutorial dialogs. The 23 rules were designed to formalize causal knowledge and reasoning, and they included such abilities as forming hypotheses, distinguishing between necessary and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Critical Thinking, Hypothesis Testing
Rico, Gabriele Lusser; Claggett, Mary Frances – 1980
Taking a cautious view of research into the workings of the brain, this booklet suggests that such research has merely given validity to a truth good teachers have always known: all people have two ways of thinking, a linear, logical way, and a spatial, intuitive way. It also suggests that faced with cries for "basics" in education, it…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Logical Thinking
Landa, L. N. – 1974
An introduction to the theory of algorithms reviews the theoretical issues of teaching algorithms, the logical and psychological problems of devising algorithms of identification, and the selection of efficient algorithms; and then relates all of these to the classroom teaching process. It also descirbes some major research on the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Teaching, Learning Processes
Swartz, Robert J.; Parks, Sandra – 1994
This book explores the concept of combining effective classroom techniques for teaching students to become good thinkers with effective strategies to engage students in thoughtful learning of the regular elementary school curriculum. The technique of lesson design and instruction that results is called "infusing critical and creative thinking…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Critical Thinking
Swartz, Robert J.; Perkins, D. N. – 1990
This teaching guide provides an integrated framework for teaching thinking skills which involves both teaching thinking in a separate program or course and infusing the teaching of thinking into standard subject area instruction across the curriculum. Individual chapters deal with the following topics: (1) the nature of thinking skills and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking
Nussbaum, Martha C. – 1997
This book addresses the need for higher education to create a community of critical thinkers. It suggests that contemporary curricular reform is already producing citizens of the world as it advocates diversity and multicultural education. The central argument is a defense of the "new education," and is rooted in the ideal of the citizen…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Discourse Analysis
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