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Knapp, Clifford E. – 1992
This digest contrasts the traditional view of learning characteristic of classroom instruction with the emerging "constructivist" view that emphasizes the understanding of how and why students learn. The latter takes learning as a knowledge construction process that closely relates to prior knowledge and the learning context. It lends…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Potts, Bonnie – 1994
Critical thinking skills figure prominently among the goals for education proposed by educational researchers, parents, and employers. This digest discusses the skills related to critical thinking and three specific strategies for teaching these skills. The first, Building Categories, is an inductive reasoning tool that helps students categorize…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Thinking, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Carr, Kathryn S. – 1990
This ERIC Digest discusses three ways in which teachers can create an environment that stimulates critical inquiry: critical reading; writing to learn; and classification games. Critical reading has been defined as learning to evaluate, draw inferences, and arrive at conclusions based on the evidence. Elbow's (1983) writing to learn approach to…
Descriptors: Classification, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Skills
Christen, William L.; Murphy, Thomas J. – 1991
It appears that the value of providing students with strategies to activate their prior knowledge base or to build a base if one does not exist is supported by current research. Creating an opportunity to challenge students to call on their collective experiences (prior knowledge) is essential. Through this process, teachers move students from…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Blakey, Elaine; Spence, Sheila – 1990
Studies show that metacognitive strategies can increase learning skills and that independent use of these metacognitive strategies can be gradually developed in people. The school library media center is the ideal place for students to learn how to develop metacognitive strategies; that is, they can learn how to connect new information to former…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers
Kerka, Sandra – 1992
The skills most often mentioned in definitions of critical thinking are the ability to think creatively, make decisions, solve problems, visualize, reason, analyze, interpret, and know how to learn. Vocational education should be involved in developing thinking skills for the following reasons: occupations are becoming more reliant on cognitive…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Postsecondary Education
Sutman, Francis X.; And Others – 1993
New teaching methods and curricula that show promise in their ability to provide limited English proficient (LEP) students with a good education in both science and English are discussed and illustrated. Discriminatory practice has led to the clustering of LEP students into low ability tracks without consideration of their actual abilities and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Discovery Learning
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2002
New approaches to career and technical education (CTE) create new roles for career educators, including providing career awareness, counseling, guidance, and self-education. Career educators must understand and reflect upon career development theories; teaching and learning strategies; school-to-work practices; school/business linkages; and…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Career Academies, Career Counseling, Career Education