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Complete College America, 2025
No matter what path students pursue in postsecondary education and in life, they need to be able to problem-solve and think critically. The study of mathematics teaches skills and habits of mind that are an essential part of the formula for students to succeed in further studies and in their careers. Requiring all students, regardless of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Skill Development
Willingham, Daniel T. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2017
Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now--as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request? "Why does it matter?" "The Reading Mind" is a brilliant, beautifully crafted, and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
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
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Siegler, Robert; Carpenter, Thomas; Fennell, Francis; Geary, David; Lewis, James; Okamoto, Yukari; Thompson, Laurie; Wray, Jonathan – What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
This practice guide presents five recommendations intended to help educators improve students' understanding of, and problem-solving success with, fractions. Recommendations progress from proposals for how to build rudimentary understanding of fractions in young children; to ideas for helping older children understand the meaning of fractions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Young Children, Elementary Education
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Arredondo, Daisy E.; Marzano, Robert J. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Walla Walla Schools (Washington) designed a demonstration project using the Marzano thinking skills model, which emphasizes learning preparation, content thinking, and basic reasoning skills. Placing selected thinking skills within specific curriculum areas and grade levels proved so successful that teachers then collaborated on a content-free…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Innovation
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Hart, Leslie A. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Assails schools for rushing into the thinking skills approach without examining advances in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neuropsychology, and other brain-related disciplines. Blames the classroom situation itself for forcing teachers into counterproductive, direct teaching methods that don't work. Asserts the need for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories
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Falkof, Lucille; Moss, Janet – Educational Leadership, 1984
Describes a districtwide thinking skills program developed by teachers in an Illinois elementary school. (MD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Inservice Education
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Swartz, Robert J. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Discusses certain teachers' rejection of prepackaged curricula for infusion of critical thinking skills into their teaching. Observational learning develops thinking skills and deepens understanding of causality and responsibility, whether the context is the Battle of Lexington or Chicken Little's dilemma. Strong administrative support is needed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Melchior, Timothy M.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1988
Describes the use of Edward de Bono's CoRT (Cognitive Research Trust) program in English classes during the past five years at Memorial Junior High School in Valley Stream, New York. CoRT tools were used to analyze literary characters and plot development and to generate and organize ideas for writing assignments. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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Derrico, Patricia J. – Educational Leadership, 1988
With Matthew Lipman's Philosophy for Children program, middle school students and their teachers in the Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Area School District use dialectical reasoning strategies as they contemplate perennial questions. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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Barbieri, Edmund L. – Educational Leadership, 1988
At Westover (Connecticut) Elementary Magnet School, a teacher training program called "Talents Unlimited" focuses on critical and creative thinking, invites children to become active learners, and enables teachers to function as facilitators of learning. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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Schlichter, Carol L.; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1988
"Talents Unlimited," a research-based model for teaching thinking at the elementary level, has proven to be an effective model for the secondary level as well at schools in New Mexico, Arkansas, and Alabama. The program emphasizes strategies that help teachers integrate practice in thinking skills with academic content. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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Barbieri, Edmund L. – Educational Leadership, 1988
"Talents Unlimited," a program developed in Mobile (Alabama) County Public Schools in 1971, nurtures students' abilities in five talent areas as the foundation for academic proficiency: productive thinking, communication, forecasting, decision making, and planning. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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Shulik, Jacqueline P. – Educational Leadership, 1988
Teachers in Howard County, Maryland, are finding that project IMPACT, a critical thinking skills curriculum originally designed for remedial junior high school students, can be successfully adapted for elementary students also. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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King, Lean; King, Rita – Educational Leadership, 1988
Tactics for Thinking is a comprehensive staff development program that can be adapted to specific curriculum needs in local districts. San Diego County (California) is training teachers in three categories of cognitive strategies: learning to learn, content thinking skills, and reasoning skills. (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Strategies
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