Presents teachers with a wide range of materials designed to help them create a positive learning environment and effective units that will encourage the development of their students' thinking skills.
Explains the two systems that drive the way we think; system one is fast, intuitive, and emotional, and system two is slower, deliberative, and logical and discusses how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
helping children build mental math and computation strategies, grades K-5
Parrish, Sherry
2014
Discusses the benefits of using "number talks," in the classroom, which are five- to fifteen-minute conversations that encourage students to mentally solve a computation problem and explains how to plan for and design number talks for kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms. Includes a DVD with classroom footage and additional resources for teachers.
Encourages critical thinking skills in children by presenting open-ended, thought provoking questions with promts to draw or write their reactions in a notebook or engage with family and friends.
A large part of our everyday communication involves argumentation and reasoning for example, when we want to persuade others, make good purchasing decisions, or analyze the messages we receive from advertisers and politicians. But how well do we prepare students for these tasks? Can they critically evaluate a speaker s point of view? Understand rhetorical devices? Apply logic? Build an effective argument, whether written or spoken?.
