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Growth Mindset & Intellectual Risk-Taking: Disentangling Conflated Concepts
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Clark, Shelby; Soutter, Madora – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Although most teachers are familiar with growth mindsets, many conflate it with other terms or concepts or have difficulties understanding how to best foster growth mindsets in their students. Shelby Clark and Madora Soutter describe how growth mindsets are related to, yet distinct from, intellectual risk-taking and share strategies for fostering…
Descriptors: Risk, Intellectual Development, High School Students, High School Teachers
A Holistic Approach to Improving Thinking Skills.
Sadler, William A., Jr.; Whimbey, Arthur – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Proposes six principles to follow when teaching students to think. Aimed at teaching thinking as an indivisible process rather than as a set of discrete skills, the principles involve active learning, the articulation of thinking, intuitive understanding, structuring courses developmentally, motivating learning, and establishing a positive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Intellectual Development
The Illusion of Technique and the Intellectual Life of Schools.
Regnier, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Fascination with pedagogical technique has denigrated the intellectual life of K-12 educators and furthered the proliferation of "interdisciplinary" instructional approaches that blur important distinctions among disciplines. An atmosphere that values technique over substance tends to drive out or marginalize educators who enjoy reading and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
'Why in the World': Using Television to Develop Critical Thinking Skills.
Cortes, Carlos E.; Richardson, Elinor – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
A Public Broadcasting Service television series uses national and international current events to stimulate critical analysis in high school students. Among facets of critical analysis and supporting teaching strategies examined are determination of perspective, evaluation of logic, analysis of supplementary materials, projections into the future,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Current Events
Answering Questions and Questioning Answers: Guiding Children to Intellectual Excellence.
Sternberg, Robert J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Parents and teachers help children develop their intelligence by mediating their learning experiences. When children seek such mediation by asking questions, parents and teachers can use one of seven responses. The single most helpful response is to take children's questions seriously and turn them into golden thinking and learning opportunities.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Models
The Direct Teaching of Thinking as a Skill.
De Bono, Edward – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
This study emphasizes the relationship of perception to thinking and explains direct teaching of thinking. Without clarity of seeing and creativity, perception is shown to become narrow patterning. The Cognitive Research Trust program is recommended for teaching thinking skills using transferable thinking "tools." Self-images of students…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
On Teaching Thinking Skills in the Elementary and Middle School.
Brown, Jerry L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Sixty 15-minute television programs help students learn to reason and systematically solve problems. The goals are confident, flexible thinking; self-management; effective expression; and systematic reasoning. The cognitive skills emphasized include information collecting, classifying, and communicating effectively. A resource list is provided.…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills