Still Learning to Think Thinking to Learn

Still Learning to Think Thinking to Learn

Planning with a Thinking Focus

by Michael Pohl

This book is a practical guide for teachers at all levels of schooling as they plan and implement learning activities with a thinking focus. It describes processes that can be used to infuse thinking into everyday learning through the application and explicit teaching of various models and strategies. These strategies will see students engaging in a wide range of thinking tasks regardless of whether they are working within defined subject areas or on units that cut across traditional curriculum boundaries. Contents include:

• The Revised Bloom's Taxonomy
• Extended Brainstorming
• Thinker's Keys
• Directed Thinking
• Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• Focus on Critical Thinking
• Taylor’s Multiple Talent Model
• Focus on Creative Thinking
• Eberle's SCAMPER
• Focus on Caring Thinking
• Lipman's Caring Thinking Model
• Combined Bloom's Taxonomy and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Framework
• Combined Bloom's and Krathwohl’s Taxonomies
• The Divergent Thinking Model