Product Description: Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Communication contains research, strategies, and lesson plans that will help increase students’ skill level in the 3 Cs: creativity, critical thinking, and communication. The strategies of the 3 Cs renew stale curricula and supports deeper learning of core concepts...read more

Product Description: Describes the creation of developmentally appropriate criteria used to identify and screen Arabic-language works for children that promote tolerance and critical thinking and the characteristics of the materials that were found. The authors present several examples of works that met the criteria, discuss barriers that prevent the development and dissemination of more such works, and suggest ways to address and overcome these barriers...read more

Product Description: Metacognition is known to be an important factor in academic achievement; however it is also important in a wider life context. The ability to reflect upon how we are thinking can help us to make wiser decisions in all aspects of our life...read more

"Philosophy in Schools" is a collection of original philosophical essays that together make a robust case for the teaching of philosophy in schools. Leading philosophers of education explode the myth that philosophy is somehow too difficult or abstract for children and set out a series of compelling arguments for its inclusion in the school curriculum. Key themes addressed include: the role of philosophy in teaching controversial issues; the epistemological basis of critical thinking; the practice of conceptual analysis; philosophical thinking in moral and religious education; the idea of philosophical intelligence; philosophical themes in children's literature; philosophy and the adolescent's search for meaning; the connection between philosophy and wisdom.

Product Description: Millions of children struggle with reading-and even more struggle to understand exactly what they're reading. Read Well, Think Well will help you to teach your children to build the essential reading and comprehension skills they need to succeed in today's demanding school system...read more

Product Description: What do we want schools to accomplish? The only defensible answer, Deanna Kuhn argues, is that they should teach students to use their minds well, in school and beyond.Bringing insights from research in developmental psychology to pedagogy, Kuhn maintains that inquiry and argument should be at the center of a "thinking curriculum"―a curriculum that makes sense to students as well as to teachers and develops the skills and values needed for lifelong learning...read more

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Product Description: Active Bodies, Active Brains offers a wealth of physical activities to help kids develop physical, social, and cognitive skills. Based on cutting-edge research in brain compatibility, these games and activities help children -increase their ability to focus;-integrate their movement with thinking, thus enhancing development of neural pathways;-improve memory;-open up more areas of the brain to participate in learning;-reduce stress and enhance positive feelings to increase their learning; and-include physical activity in their daily lives...read more

A stimulating, do-it-yourself, inventive resource packed with cross-curriculum science and design and technology projects that children can put together themselves and which really work. Uses child's natural curiosity to develop creative problem-solving skills.

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Product Description: Help your students develop important 21st-century skills with engaging critical-thinking and language arts activities! The 40 fun, imaginative lessons in Clues to Comprehension, Grades 1-2 use downloadable interactive charts and reproducible practice pages to help students develop important thinking and language arts skills...read more

Product Description: Across the curriculum, five successful lesson plans are presented, with commentary on effectiveness from the author and teachers who have tried them. These lessons are placed in context: speaking and listening, ground-rules of discussion, four kinds of argument, applied techniques of thought, intellectual challenge, kinds of question, getting the climate right, exploring moral issues, and avoiding excessive academic expectations whilst raising intellectual expectations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The public outcry for a return to moral education in our schools has raised more dust than it's dispelled. Building upon his provocative ideas in On Becoming Responsible, Michael Pritchard clears the air with a sensible plan for promoting our children's moral education through the teaching of reasonableness...read more

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Product Description: The practical and theoretical implications of Philosophy for and with Children.