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Conyers, Marcus; Wilson, Donna – Educational Leadership, 2020
If students are explicitly taught about their brain's capacity to change, their motivation to learn can greatly increase. Marcus Conyers and Donna Wilson, author of "Developing Growth Mindsets," share examples from elementary to high school classrooms where students who are taught about brain plasticity show a greater potential for…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Development, Learning Motivation, Elementary School Students
Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen; Knecht, Douglas R. – Educational Leadership, 2020
Human beings construct narratives about the world and their experiences in it--whether in math class or at the dinner table, people tell themselves stories about who they and others are, how the world works and why. Among teenagers, these meaning-making narratives are related to the activity and changing connectivity of the networks in their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Development, Adolescent Development, Brain
Gabrieli, John – Educational Leadership, 2020
New brain imaging methods are helping us better understand how children learn, writes neuroscientist John Gabrieli. But "education neuroscience" has become the source of both promise and debate.
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Neurosciences, Learning Processes
Brown, Seth; Feller, Thomas, Jr. – Educational Leadership, 2022
Self-directed student learning begins with self-directed educators. Teachers in Greenville, North Carolina, are training in the Habits of Mind, a series of thinking behaviors that support self-directed learning by helping students successfully tackle complex problems. The authors outline key instructional strategies that have grown from these…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Self Management, Student Behavior, Teacher Education
Kolb, Liz – Educational Leadership, 2019
Many school leaders feel pressure to encourage teachers to integrate technology, yet they do not have a strong conceptual framework of how technology should be integrated. Kolb offers up her open-source Triple E Framework, a tool that helps administrators ask smart questions about how technology is being integrated into learning. Three key…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Teaching Methods
Nisbett, Richard E. – Educational Leadership, 2016
You read in the paper this morning that people who take multivitamins have fewer heart attacks and are less likely to get cancer than people who don't. Does this information make you more likely to want to take multivitamins? To truly prepare students for life, schools need to teach them the critical thinking skills they need to answer questions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving
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Conley, David T. – Educational Leadership, 2011
The Common Core State Standards, released in June 2010, offer an opportunity to shift education away from shallow, test-prep instruction and toward a focus on key cognitive skills, writes Conley. Two consortia of states are now developing common assessments to measure these standards--assessments that will be designed to capture deeper, more…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, State Standards, Thinking Skills, Educational Needs
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Noddings, Nel – Educational Leadership, 2008
Critical thinking is the sort of mental activity that uses facts to plan, order, and work toward an end; seeks meaning or an explanation; is self-reflective; and uses reason to question claims and make judgments. Any subject--be it physics, algebra, or auto repair--can promote critical thinking as long as teachers teach the subject matter in…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Critical Thinking, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship
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Mansilla, Veronica Boix; Gardner, Howard – Educational Leadership, 2008
Most students in most schools today study subject matter. They and their teachers conceive of the educational task as committing to memory large numbers of facts, formulas, and figures. A far more sophisticated perspective emphasizes teaching disciplines and disciplinary thinking. The goal of this approach is to instill in students the disposition…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Role of Education, Thinking Skills, Comprehension
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Levine, Mel – Educational Leadership, 2007
The author describes four capacities--interpretation, instrumentation, interaction, and inner direction--that are as important as traditional academic subjects in preparing young adults for college and career success. He suggests how high schools should address each of these capacities. For example, to develop students' capacity for inner…
Descriptors: Student Development, Cognitive Development, Behavioral Objectives, Creative Development
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Michaels, Ken – Educational Leadership, 1988
Advises educators to stop peering through the rearview mirror of first-wave reform aimed at increasing accountability and raising standards, and confront the second wave's exciting new agenda featuring individual schools as decision-makers, a more collegial, personalized school environment, flexible time use, and an emphasis on higher-order…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brooks, Martin; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1983
The Cognitive Levels Matching Project trains teachers to guide students' skill acquisition and problem-solving processes by assessing students' cognitive levels and adapting their teaching materials accordingly. (MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Intellectual Development
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Johnston, Christine A. – Educational Leadership, 1998
The Interactive Learning Model illustrates how we process information (cognition), perform learning tasks (conation), and develop a self when performing difficult learning tasks (affectation). Individuals approach learning tasks with varying degrees of sequence, precision, technical reasoning, and confluence. These ingredients are embedded in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Differences
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Hughes, Carolyn Sue – Educational Leadership, 1981
The Questions to Upgrade and Encourage Student Thinking (QUEST) program is designed to improve student reading comprehension by improving teacher questioning skills. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Questioning Techniques
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Williams, Belinda; Newcombe, Ellen – Educational Leadership, 1994
The Urban Learner Framework stresses four themes: the importance of students' cultural strengths and learning experiences, culture's influence on cognitive development, the importance of motivation and effort, and resilience as a characteristic of urban learners. Barriers to change include belief systems, district size, regulations, multiple…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
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