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Kaplan, Sandra N. – Learning, 1990
Learning-to-learn skills prepare students for the more complex skills of metacognition, which will eventually become a framework for all the individual thinking skills taught. Twelve learning-to-learn skills are identified, accompanied by suggested instructional strategies. The objective of these skills is to make students active rather than…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Teaching Methods
Reis, Sally – Learning, 1990
This article identifies two approaches to teaching specific thinking skills, presents a sample lesson plan, and includes as an example a "Thinking Skills Worksheet" that outlines an approach to teaching the thinking skills of comparing and contrasting. (IAH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Strategies, Lesson Plans, Teaching Methods
Cummings, Alysa – Learning, 1991
Describes discovery learning, a teaching method that encourages students to use inductive reasoning. Students explore and experiment using the skill or idea being taught; they determine rules, make generalizations, and discover concepts. The teacher acts as coach, advisor, and reinforcer. A student page offers a discovery learning game on capital…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Discovery Learning, Educational Games, Elementary Education