Description
Transform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. In this well-researched book, author Rebecca Stobaugh shares how to build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills — from critical thinking and problem-solving to teamwork and creativity. Gain 50 teacher-tested instructional and student engagement strategies for nurturing students’ cognitive development, and utilize the book’s Take Action activities to help you put the student engagement strategies to work in your classroom.
Use these teaching strategies to foster student engagement and cognitive skills:
- Gain an understanding of the concepts of critical thinking and cognitive engagement, as well as the relationship between the two.
- Study Bloom’s revised taxonomy, the cognitive processes associated with its various levels, and how they relate to cognitive engagement in the classroom.
- Access 50 teaching strategies for classroom engagement that will encourage the cognitive development of students and grow their critical thinking skills.
- Learn about three important aspects for sustaining classroom engagement — movement, collaboration, and media literacy — and how these connect with the 50 teaching strategies.
- Utilize effective teaching strategies and new knowledge of critical thinking and cognitive skills to build a culture of thinking in the classroom.
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding Cognitive Engagement and the Thinking-Based Classroom
Chapter 2: Applying a Taxonomy to the Thinking in Your Classroom
Chapter 3: Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Fostering Engagement
Chapter 4: Implementing Strategies for Understand-Level Content
Chapter 5: Implementing Strategies for Analyze-Level Content
Chapter 6: Implementing Strategies for Evaluate-Level Content
Chapter 7: Implementing Strategies for Create-Level Content
Chapter 8: Cementing a Culture of Thinking
This is just what I needed to reinvigorate my lessons after the COVID slump. Some of them were basic strategies but it still was nice to have a reminder about them. Looking forward to putting them to use this year.
I used this book with my third graders and it was amazing! My students were more engaged, and our class connected and bonded over our thinking classroom culture. We always went deeper into a topic, explored greater depths within a concept, and chased knowledge with never ending fervor. It was an amazing school year! I believe this played a vital role in more than doubling my students’ end of the year scores!
This book is jammed full of strategies to get students to think in class, all centered around applying a taxonomy to the thinking in your classroom. Each strategy is listed and explained, the classroom example, the steps, variations, content area examples are all included with each of the 50 strategies shared.
This is a great book that walks you step by step through examples on how to increase cognitive engagement in your classroom. My favorite part is that it gives you examples in each discipline.
This is a teaching book that won’t stay on my shelf and collect dust! Lots of great strategies for every classroom!