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Thinking Protocols for Learning

Grow students into creative, ethical, and critical thinkers who can confidently navigate the complexities of a rapidly changing world. Thinking Protocols for Learning offers instructional techniques for teaching 21st Century Skills that boost student engagement, metacognition, and problem solving.

Benefits

  • Understand the development and applications of metacognition.
  • Learn how to teach various thinking skills, including critical, creative, and ethical thinking.
  • Facilitate strong group dialogue among students.
  • Explore problem solving and problem posing in order to encourage thinking-skill usage among students.
  • Embed practical strategies for teaching critical thinking skills into everyday classwork.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Chapter 2: Dialogue for Meaning Making
Chapter 3: Protocols for Critical Thinking
Chapter 4: Protocols for Creative Thinking
Chapter 5: Problem Solving and Problem Posing
Chapter 6: Ethical Thinking

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