Pathways to Thinking Schools

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David N. Hyerle - Designs for Thinking
Lawrence S. Alper - Designs for Thinking
Pathways to Thinking Schools
April 2014 | 280 pages | Corwin
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Give students the essential thinking skills they need to thrive. 

Content-focused teaching may yield marginal improvements in test scores, but leaves students without the cognitive skills and dispositions for success in an information-overloaded world that requires deep thinking, collaborative problem solving, and emotional intelligence. 

David Hyerle has brought exciting models for enabling students to drive their own thinking and learning to schools in every corner of the world, with outstanding results. In this book, Hyerle presents case studies of schools and educators who have applied these models, in some cases system-wide, to ensure every student can thrive in an increasingly complex future. Among his powerful concepts for short and long-term improvement are:

  • Visual Tools for Thinking—The nonlinguistic tools that have made Hyerle’s famous “Thinking Maps” model so successful
  • Dispositions for Mindfulness—a language for students to improve their intellectual-emotional behaviors as they learn
  • Questioning for Inquiry—A system for developing students’ abilities to ask questions in the context of a developing Community of Inquiry, including the use of Bloom’s revised Taxonomy and the Six Hats Thinking® model
 
Ultimately, Pathways to Thinking Schools synthesizes the potential of smart content-based teaching  with the powerful thinking skills and dispositions that supercharge the educational experience. 

“In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally.”
—Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer
National Urban Alliance

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Foreword by Yvette Jackson

Foreword by Yvette Jackson

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

  • 1. Catalyst: Thinking Schools as a Catalyst for Transformational Change
  • 2. Imperative
  • Working to Avoid Intellectual Apartheid
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 3. Brain-Mind
  • Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 4. Criteria
  • Criteria for a Thinking Schools Approach
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 5. Journey
  • Journey Toward Becoming a Thinking School
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 6. School
  • The Tree of Learning
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 7. System
  • A System-Wide Vision for Thinking
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 8. Language
  • Thinking Language Learners
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 9. Coaching
  • Improving the Quality of Teaching Through Visual Coaching and Supervision
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 10. Leading
  • Leading Connectively
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 11. Country

Thinking Schools Ethiopia

  • Questions for Enquiry

Appendix

Appendix

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

Give students the essential thinking skills they need to thrive. 

Content-focused teaching may yield marginal improvements in test scores, but leaves students without the cognitive skills and dispositions for success in an information-overloaded world that requires deep thinking, collaborative problem solving, and emotional intelligence. 

David Hyerle has brought exciting models for enabling students to drive their own thinking and learning to schools in every corner of the world, with outstanding results. In this book, Hyerle presents case studies of schools and educators who have applied these models, in some cases system-wide, to ensure every student can thrive in an increasingly complex future. Among his powerful concepts for short and long-term improvement are:

  • Visual Tools for Thinking—The nonlinguistic tools that have made Hyerle’s famous “Thinking Maps” model so successful
  • Dispositions for Mindfulness—a language for students to improve their intellectual-emotional behaviors as they learn
  • Questioning for Inquiry—A system for developing students’ abilities to ask questions in the context of a developing Community of Inquiry, including the use of Bloom’s revised Taxonomy and the Six Hats Thinking® model
 
Ultimately, Pathways to Thinking Schools synthesizes the potential of smart content-based teaching  with the powerful thinking skills and dispositions that supercharge the educational experience. 

“In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally.”
—Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer
National Urban Alliance

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Foreword by Yvette Jackson

Foreword by Yvette Jackson

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

  • 1. Catalyst: Thinking Schools as a Catalyst for Transformational Change
  • 2. Imperative
  • Working to Avoid Intellectual Apartheid
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 3. Brain-Mind
  • Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 4. Criteria
  • Criteria for a Thinking Schools Approach
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 5. Journey
  • Journey Toward Becoming a Thinking School
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 6. School
  • The Tree of Learning
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 7. System
  • A System-Wide Vision for Thinking
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 8. Language
  • Thinking Language Learners
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 9. Coaching
  • Improving the Quality of Teaching Through Visual Coaching and Supervision
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 10. Leading
  • Leading Connectively
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 11. Country

Thinking Schools Ethiopia

  • Questions for Enquiry

Appendix

Appendix

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Give students the essential thinking skills they need to thrive. 

Content-focused teaching may yield marginal improvements in test scores, but leaves students without the cognitive skills and dispositions for success in an information-overloaded world that requires deep thinking, collaborative problem solving, and emotional intelligence. 

David Hyerle has brought exciting models for enabling students to drive their own thinking and learning to schools in every corner of the world, with outstanding results. In this book, Hyerle presents case studies of schools and educators who have applied these models, in some cases system-wide, to ensure every student can thrive in an increasingly complex future. Among his powerful concepts for short and long-term improvement are:

  • Visual Tools for Thinking—The nonlinguistic tools that have made Hyerle’s famous “Thinking Maps” model so successful
  • Dispositions for Mindfulness—a language for students to improve their intellectual-emotional behaviors as they learn
  • Questioning for Inquiry—A system for developing students’ abilities to ask questions in the context of a developing Community of Inquiry, including the use of Bloom’s revised Taxonomy and the Six Hats Thinking® model
 
Ultimately, Pathways to Thinking Schools synthesizes the potential of smart content-based teaching  with the powerful thinking skills and dispositions that supercharge the educational experience. 

“In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally.”
—Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer
National Urban Alliance

Table Of Contents:

  • List of Figures
  • Foreword by Yvette Jackson
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • 1. Catalyst: Thinking Schools as a Catalyst for Transformational Change
  • 2. Imperative
  • Working to Avoid Intellectual Apartheid
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 3. Brain-Mind
  • Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 4. Criteria
  • Criteria for a Thinking Schools Approach
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 5. Journey
  • Journey Toward Becoming a Thinking School
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 6. School
  • The Tree of Learning
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 7. System
  • A System-Wide Vision for Thinking
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 8. Language
  • Thinking Language Learners
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 9. Coaching
  • Improving the Quality of Teaching Through Visual Coaching and Supervision
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 10. Leading
  • Leading Connectively
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • 11. Country
  • Thinking Schools Ethiopia
  • Questions for Enquiry
  • Appendix
  • Index

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"In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally; schools where students will be equipped to think dialectically, reflecting on the ramifications and possibilities of interdependence; schools where students will be cultivated to transform themselves to be self-actualized and who make contributions to transform the world so this millennium is the one in which we achieve the global success of cooperation, high productivity globally, and innovation of efficient and effective use of our most promising and productive resource: our mind and the thinking it generates."
Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, National Urban Alliance

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