How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core: 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards

Ensure your students develop the complex, higher-order thinking skills they need to not just survive but thrive in a 21st century world. The latest edition of this best-selling guide by James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete details a three-phase teaching model and dives deep into how to teach seven key student critical thinking, creative thinking, complex thinking, comprehensive thinking, collaborative thinking, communicative thinking, and cognitive transfer. How to teach higher-order thinking skills for student engagement and Part Critical ThinkingChapter 1: AnalyzeChapter 2: EvaluateChapter 3: Problem Solve Part Creative ThinkingChapter 4: GenerateChapter 5: AssociateChapter 6: Hypothesize Part Complex ThinkingChapter 7: ClarifyChapter 8: InterpretChapter 9: Determine Part Comprehensive ThinkingChapter 10: UnderstandChapter 11: InferChapter 12: Compare and Contrast Part Collaborative ThinkingChapter 13: ExplainChapter 14: DevelopChapter 15: Decide Part Communicative ThinkingChapter 16: ReasonChapter 17: ConnectChapter 18: Represent Part Cognitive TransferChapter 19: SynthesizeChapter 20: GeneralizeChapter 21: Apply