| Description |
1 online resource (150 pages) |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; Background to thinking curricula; Developing an effective classroom climate for higher order thinking; Creating a thinking school; Using a thinking curriculum to guide learning in the middle years; Testing everyone?; The visual arts as a thinking tool; Developing a thinking curriculum for Year 5; Negotiating a thinking skills curriculum; Designing a thinking curriculum for later middle years' adolescents; Valuing and assessing higher order thinking skills in mathematics; Creating a design and multimedia thinking curriculum |
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Identifying and assessing a thinking-based design curriculum |
| Summary |
The revised edition of Designing a Thinking Curriculum responds to the challengeof disengagement in the middle years of schooling by providing teachers andadministrators with ideas for the implementation of a thinking curriculum intheir schools. Teachers, teacher educators and curriculum consultants describe how theyhave been influenced by theorists, their use of appropriate cognitive theories, andstrategies they have developed that will assist students to develop higher orderthinking skills. Ways of accommodating a variety of learning styles and establishingsupportive school structures are als |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Curriculum planning -- Australia
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Education.
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Curriculum planning
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Education
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781423747345 |
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1423747348 |
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