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Dawson, Peg; Guare, Richard – Guilford Press, 2018
Many tens of thousands of school practitioners and teachers (K-12) have benefited from the step-by-step guidelines and practical tools in this influential go-to resource, now revised and expanded with six new chapters. The third edition presents effective ways to assess students' strengths and weaknesses, create supportive instructional…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Skill Development, Children, Adolescents
ExpandED Schools, 2014
This guide is a list of tools that can be used in continued implementation of strong programming powered by Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies. This curated resource pulls from across the landscape of policy, research and practice, with a description of each tool gathered directly from its website.
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Guides, Evaluation Methods
Dawson, Peg; Guare, Richard – Guilford Publications, 2010
This guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children's behavior and school performance. Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Cognitive Processes, Individualized Instruction, Skill Development

Shraw, Gregory; Graham, Theresa – Roeper Review, 1997
Describes types of metacognitive knowledge and how this knowledge relates to other cognitive skills. The strengths and weaknesses of three instructional strategies for promoting metacognition among gifted and talented students are reviewed, and the skills and strategies that should be included in metacognitive instruction programs are discussed.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Metacognition

Swicegood, Philip R.; Parsons, James L. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1989
Students with learning disabilities and behavior problems need instruction designed to increase active thinking and questioning skills. Described methods for teaching these skills include T. Raphael's question-answer relationships, A. Hahn's questioning strategy, reciprocal teaching, and the "ReQuest" procedure. Practice activities for…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities

Robertson, Harvette M.; Priest, Billie; Fullwood, Harry L. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2001
Twenty ways are presented to help students with special needs gain and apply learning strategies more efficiently, including helping students discriminate whether information is useful or irrelevant, focusing on metacognitive development, encouraging self-sufficiency, helping students organize material into meaningful units, and having student…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education

Blachowicz, Camille L. Z. – Reading Teacher, 1983
Describes an inservice technique that models for teachers how they can use the Directed Reading Thinking Activity to develop students' predictive strategies. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
Peters, Richard – 1988
Based on the premise that environmental education should be taught in K-12 social studies classes, this document describes the eco/studies concept of the constant interaction between natural and human designed environments. The use of a model, through which students role play as researching social scientists, is described, along with the concepts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Global Approach
Devine, Thomas G. – 1987
This book describes specific ways for teachers to assist their students in mastering skills needed for success in school. It is based upon the belief that thinking can be improved, human intellect sharpened, and academic ability increased. A case for study skills is made in Chapter I. Chapter II provides guidelines for the immediate improvement of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Ayim, Maryann – Canadian Journal of Education, 1980
The article defends the teaching of philosophy at elementary and secondary levels and examines some existing precollege philosophy curricula; special attention is given to the American Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children and a Canadian effort to establish moral education in the schools. (SB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs

Conway, Robert N. F.; Ashman, Adrian F. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1989
Problems are identified in adapting findings of laboratory-based cognitive instruction to mainstream classes. A metacognitive instruction model called Process-based Instruction (PBI) is then described. PBI recognizes the importance of interactions between student, teacher, and curriculum content and involves assessment, orientation, strategy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Integrated Activities, Learning Strategies

Sugden, David A. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1989
Under the National Curriculum in the United Kingdom, children with learning difficulties will need to use transfer skills for various cross-curricular themes. To promote transfer, the use of cognitive strategies is recommended, including perceived similarity, analysis of the learning context, expert scaffolding, and detailed planning of practice…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Adams, Harvey B.; Wallace, Belle – Gifted Education International, 1988
Described is an approach to the teaching of thinking and problem-solving for gifted and regular education students, based on R.J. Sternberg's "Suggested Criteria for the Development of Thinking Skills Programmes." The program provides specific skills training and ample practice, emphasizes cooperative learning and motivation, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cooperative Learning, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries

Smith, Gayle; Smith, Don – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1989
A school-wide program was developed to teach study skills (involving cognitive strategies and school survival skills) to mainstreamed secondary-level students with learning disabilities. The program involved training teachers, synchronizing teaching schedules, and observing teachers. Students learned study strategies that transferred to content…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Weiner, Deborah A. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1988
E. Paul Torrance's Instructional Model uses an integrated approach to teach thinking skills and creative productivity along with subject content for gifted students. Thinking skill objectives include such skills as developing originality, keeping open, imagining the future, using movement, etc. Two sample lessons apply the model to creative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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