Product Description: Critical and Creative Thinking: A Guide for Teachers reveals ways to develop a capacity to think both critically and creatively in practical and productive ways. Explains why critical and creative thinking complement each other with clear examples Provides a practical toolkit of cognitive techniques for generating and evaluating ideas using both creative and critical thinking Enriches the discussion of creative and critical intersections with brief “inter-chapters” based on the thinking habits of Leonardo da Vinci Offers an overview of current trends in critical and creative thinking, with applications across a spectrum of disciplines...read more

Product Description: Become an effective critical thinker in just 20 minutes a day! Whether at work, at school, or at home, critical thinking skills are essential for success. Learning to think critically will improve your decision-making and problem-solving skills, giving you the tools you need to tackle the tough decisions and choices you face...read more

Product Description: Help your students navigate complex texts in history/social studies and English language arts! This book shows you how to use a key tool―text-based questions―to build students’ literacy and critical thinking skills and meet the Common Core State Standards...read more

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Product Description: Rhetoric, English Language, Engl. Studies, Critical Thinking, Writing

Product Description: The Handbook for Critical reading is designed to teach students how to understand a piece of writing and to think about it analytically. Although it gives examples and models of each reading skill, it allows students to use their own reading materials -- textbooks, newpspaers, anthologies, and novels -- to practice their reading skills...read more