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Peer reviewedCosta, Arthur L. – Educational Leadership, 1981
A question-answer format on how specific teacher behaviors influence students' acquisition of information, ability to make information meaningful, and application of meaning to new situations. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedVye, Nancy J.; Bransford, John D. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Explores the similarities and differences among three thinking skills programs that help students analyze and evaluate their own problem-solving skills. (MLF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Intellectual Development
Bentley, William G. – Day Care and Early Education, 1979
Suggests a set of activities that foster physical and intellectual growth through thought-provoking situations which require no special equipment and can take place indoors or out. (MP)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Intellectual Development
Download full textSlater, Frances – 1993
This teacher's guide is to enable the teacher to promote thinking through the use of geography. The book lays out the rationale in learning theory for an issues-based, question-driven inquiry method and proceeds through a simple model of progression from identifying key questions to developing generalizations. Students study issues of geographic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFraenkel, Jack R. – Social Education, 1991
Explores the meaning of distributive justice and considers the importance of teaching the concept in social studies classes. Delineates characteristics of reasonable arguments for treating people differently to bring about justice. Presents situations to generate classroom discussion of the concept of justice. (NL)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Human Dignity
Direct linkKalman, Calvin S. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
This book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses. The student-centered approach focuses on two main themes: reflective writing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Misconceptions, Science Laboratories
Azima, Kiavash; Henry, Rebecca – 1980
The essentials of Piaget's theory and its application to teaching at the college level are described as part of the Learning and Evaluation Service workshop, Teaching Students to Reason, offered at Michigan State University. Objectives are to enable the teacher to: (1) diagnose and classify reasoning patterns of students; (2) evaluate current…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, College Faculty, College Instruction
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1985
One of three related documents produced in response to a need for direct instruction in thinking skills at the secondary level, this teaching guide for Book One and Book Two of "Thinking Through Language" is intended for junior or senior high school English teachers. The guide contains an introduction and summaries of Book One and Book Two,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Wright, Mary J. – 1983
Written for a variety of audiences, this volume describes the University of Western Ontario Preschool Project in sufficient detail to permit its replication; findings of formative and summative program evaluations are reported along with research developing new criterion measures of social competence. Begun in 1973, the program was primarily…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
