Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement Named a Bestseller

Bloomington, Ind. (January 3, 2022)— Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement: Creating a Thinking Culture in the Classroom by Rebecca Stobaugh has reached bestseller status, selling more than 10,000 units within a 12-month period.

In the research-based book, Stobaugh offers support and guidance as educators take the necessary steps toward infusing their instruction with high-thinking-level, cognitively engaging practices. She notes that employers are now placing a premium on critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and creativity; therefore, educators must shift their instruction and culture to prepare students for success beyond the classroom.

“When you consider the vital importance of thinking skills to students’ future prospects,” the author writes in the book’s introduction, “the need for all teachers to cultivate a classroom culture high in cognitive engagement is clear.”

Stobaugh offers fifty teacher-tested instructional and student engagement strategies for nurturing students’ cognitive development and growing their critical thinking skills. Readers will gain the tools required to build a thinking culture in their classroom and provide their students with the skills necessary to succeed in the 21st century.

Sandra Dop, a competency-based education consultant in Iowa, highly recommends the book, saying, “Finally, Rebecca Stobaugh does for teachers what we all want for our students. She walks carefully through doable strategies, while gradually increasing the levels of cognitive engagement and creative thinking that teachers can use to enhance a traditional classroom or engage in transitioning toward a more personalized, competency-based environment.”

Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement is available to order at SolutionTree.com.

About the Authors
Rebecca Stobaugh, PhD, is an assistant professor at Western Kentucky University. She teaches assessment and unit-planning courses, supervises first-year teachers, and consults with school districts on critical thinking, instructional strategies, assessment, technology integration, and other topics.

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