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Education is more than just reading, writing, and arithmetic. In order for students to compete in the workforce of the future, they must be taught essential critical thinking skills....

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CRITICAL CONDITIONING - Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension: Teach Grades 1-8Table of Contents:IntroductionHow to Think While You ReadGetting StartedReason While You ReadJudge What You ReadComprehension SkillsRelated ActivitiesDeveloping VocabularyDeveloping Comprehension SkillsApplying Knowledge CreativelyLiterature:Story ElementsUse of LanguageIdiomsTypes of LiteratureNonfiction:Techniques to PersuadeEvaluating What You ReadRelated ActivitiesReference SkillsReference Sources and SkillsDiscussion Questions ... Read more

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The book Teach Your Kids to Think: Simple Tools You Can Use Every Day is designed to help parents teach their children how to think wisely and well during the time they already spend together. Using the latest research on intelligence and how we think, author Maria Chesley Fisk, Ph.D., has created a series of easy-to-use, fun tools that can be used whenever parents are with their 4- to 12-year-old kids. The tools are divided into sections that correspond to different kinds of thinking: analytical, creative, social & emotional, and practical. She created her thinking puzzle, used throughout the book, to represent how interrelated these thinking skills are and how they all work together to help our kids develop their multiple intelligences.
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Be aware of your child's thoughts
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Most adults do not give enough credit to the capability of reasoning a child possesses, often underrating untapped intelligence.When children are given mental challenges and proper tools to develop skills of critical thinking they are developing paths of creative, analytical and practical methods in which to think.

" Teach Your Children to Think" is a great primer for parents to learn about the "whys" and "hows" of empowering their children to think.Because parents are most important to their children, they logically are the ones to have the earliest and greatest impact on their mental growth. Dr. Fisk begins by explaining how important it is to be aware of the different types of intelligence.

She defines the different types of intelligence: social and emotional, analytical, creative and practical.After explanations and thorough samples of each, Dr. Fisk provides many useful tools with which to encourage independent problem-solving through parent-child practice.Hopefully these skills will eventually translate to the outside world.

I not only found this book to be an interesting guide for a parent or caretaker, but also for any individual interested in developing open communication with others.Anyone could use these skills and build on them with practice.Not only do these tools offer a way to enhance listening and initiate dialogue, but offer practical methods of analysis and problem-solving.A winning practical guide!!!!

A good and analytical mind now will lead to a good and analytical mind later
The mind is a terrible thing to waste and nurturing it is an important part of growing up. "Teach Your Kids to Think!: Simple Tools You Can Use Every Day" is a guide for parents to encourage thought and thinking in their children by giving them daily exercises to keep a good and intent mind as they grow up, as a good and analytical mind now will lead to a good and analytical mind later. "Teach Your Kids to Think!" is a must.

Informative guide to a daunting topic!
Thoughtful and incisive, Maria Chesley Fisk's book offers concrete ways to cultivate children's thinking in four distinct areas. Far from being esoteric, it is very readable and practical. Best of all, as the mother of two young sons, I felt I was already doing some of these things instinctively, but the book laid out ways I can do them better and more productively. I would recommend Teach Your Kids to Think! to any parent who is interested in their child's thinking patterns (and aren't we all?) but just needs a little well-delivered guidance.

Excellent resource on this topic!
I've been teaching parenting for 17 years and it's not often that a new parenting book really catches my attention.This gem however, did, and I highly recommend it to parents.Written in a parent-friendly style, you will find the information inspring, motivating and best of all...PRACTICAL.There are tools for teaching thinking in general, and then several sections on teaching different types of thinking skills.Each tip is only 1-2 pages, so it's easy to use and parents won't get overwhelmed.-Debbie Godfrey (Fox) - [...] ... Read more

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How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends sharing highly controversial issues with high school students, including "hot" questions on war, gender, advertising, and religion. ... Read more

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Ask no questions?
Perhaps the reviewer who critiqued the book for its inquiry into so-called "traditional" values also supports Jerry Falwell's provocative claim that "Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions."Noddings fundamentally challenges this claim and suggests that in many ways, American public schooling at the high school level follows thisthoughtless approach: content only, no questions asked.

The premise of the book is that our public schools should prepare students for life, not merely the workforce or college.Such an education, she argues, requires a balanced emphasis on both content and critical thinking (i.e. thoughtful judgment).This latter skill requires PRACTICE in the classroom, which can be accomplished by presenting diverse and competing forms of content on a given subject (building a knowledge base from which judgment can proceed), then giving students the opportunity to reason through their reactions or thoughts based on their own values and the possibly competing values of their classmates and teachers.

What is perhaps most controversial about the book is that the author also insists that an education geared towards building critical thinking requires a reconsideration of the subject matter currently taught.Importantly, she suggests that students have the opportunity to explore those matters that are likely to affect them most (and most deeply), such as religion, family life, career paths, propaganda, advertising and consumption, health care, military service and war.She does NOT advocate, as one reviewer suggests, a complete abandonment of "traditional" views or practices (as vague and imprecise as this term is), but rather a thoughtful investigation of those views. "Traditionalists" should not fear or discourage such inquiry as Falwell does; if the values upon which the tradition is based are sound, thoughtful inquiry will only serve to strengthen the individual's commitment to retaining that tradition.

I agree with one reviewer's complaints that the chapters are overly long and that the title should more clearly reflect its emphasis on high school curriculum.However, in my view this book is an essential read for high school and college educators for demonstrating the necessity of implementing critical thinking skills into content-based coursework.By doing so, we train a future generation capable of thoughtfully analyzing the pros and cons of choices and policies, with the ability to forge new paths when needed rather than blindly following the path already carved by previous generations.Likewise, a careful curriculum that provides students with historical patterns relating to the content at hand may also help them rediscover the fruitful qualities of older, abandoned paths.

Very Thought-Provoking but Disturbing
I wrote a review of this a couple weeks ago but for some reason it never posted. Perhaps Amazon felt I was being overly critical of the author?

The premise of Dr. Noddings' book is that public school teachers should use controversial topics to stimulate "critical thinking" in students. She would like high schools to be more like universities in this regard since a sizable percentage of students never attend college. Interesting idea, however universities (particularly elite ones like Stanford where Dr. Noddings taught) are not exactly friendly to the full diversity of viewpoints. It is clear by "Critical Lessons" that Dr. Noddings' aim is to induce skepticism towards viewpoints with which she disagrees and to indoctrinate impressionable young minds into accepting her own agenda.

The clearest example of this is in the treatment of religion in "Critical Lessons". Dr. Noddings (a humanist) is very hostile towards organized religion, in particular Christianity and most especially traditionalist denominations such as Fundamentalism and Catholicism. The book contains much misleading information about Christian beliefs and Dr. Noddings distorts the historical record when it suits her purpose. For example, Dr. Noddings notes that there has been much debate among theologians over when exactly the soul enters the growing fetus and it wasn't until the 19th century that Catholic doctrine held that it happened at conception. However, there is NO mention of the Catholic Church's clear and consistent record of opposing abortion dating all the way back to the Didache written in 90 A.D.! Why does Dr. Noddings leave out that very important point from her discussion? I suspect because it undermines her political agenda...

There has been a lot of discussion about whether Christians should remove their children from government schools. Any Christian considering public education for his/her children ought to read "Critical Lessons". Dr. Noddings is highly respected by the educrats, and she is out there promoting hostility towards Christianity and traditional beliefs about marriage & family.

For the record, "Critical Lessons" also promotes pacificism to the extreme of demonizing individual servicemembers, vegetarianism and so-called "animal rights", narcotics use, gender as a "social construction" rather than biologically determined, and poverty as societal failure rather than the result of poor choices by the individual.

A Good Attempt
Well, I tried my best--and with high expectations, considering the interesting title--to read the whole book, but mostly I plodded along. I found my interest waning after lengthy Chapter 1 (all chapters are lengthy), except for the chapter on teaching about religious thought (or not).I could only bear a little over half the book.Noddings has a way of taking a good idea--I agree with her philosophy (see review below)--and voluminously expanding it beyond necessity.One big mistake of the book is that the last chapter, "Preparing Our Schools," is at the end instead of in the beginning of the book; it is more interesting than the Introduction. Such repositioning may, perhaps, motivate others to read more than I could. Finally, although it may not sell as many books, I think the book's front cover title should be more reflective of, and honest about, its content.That is, she is addressing HIGH school teachers and curriculum developers--yes, yes, I know, it does mention this on the inside flap; nevertheless, the front title should read: "...What our High Schools Should Teach."

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A forward-thinking evaluation of positive changes to promote more independence and savvy in future generations
Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach by Nel Noddings (Professor of Education, Emerita, at Stanford University) focuses upon the critical thinking skills that modern high schools should be encouraging in today's children. "Know thyself," as Socrates once said, is not merely a philosophical soundbite; Critical Lessons argues passionately that the ability to know oneself and meticulously evaluate propaganda, the psychology of war, the motivations of other people, and platitudes voiced from all walks of life from churches to social groups to political parties to popular culture, is more vital than ever to sustaining a successful and healty modern society. Critical Lessons does not shy away from controversial topics, such as denouncing the concept that a benevolent God and a Hell of eternal torture as a logically impossible conundrum. A forward-thinking evaluation of positive changes to promote more independence and savvy in future generations.
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By helping children to form positive thinking and learning habits, and to develop a range of transferable skills, we give them the tools they need to become successful learners.

This book is grounded in the best of current practice and theories surrounding thinking and learning skills.It provides a highly effective method for introducing a comprehensive set of thinking and learning skills to children aged 5 to 11, as well as for integrating these skills through the curriculum.By means of carefully developed games, activities and group tasks, these ready-to-use lessons will appeal to a wide range of learners and abilities.

Features of the book include:

" a clear explanation of what thinking and learning skills are;

" lots of photocopiable activities, for use by individual teachers and in INSET;

" a plan for introducing thinking and learning skills in your school;

" suggestions for further reading and development of the programme.

Headteachers, Curriculum Co-ordinators and classroom practitioners wishing to introduce and develop thinking and learning skills in their school can either follow this programme in its entirety, or dip into it when appropriate for specific activities. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Nursing Forum, published by Nursecom, Inc. on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 3139 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On Target: A Model to Teach Baccalaureate Nursing Students to Apply Critical Thinking.
Author: Anna Brock
Publication: Nursing Forum (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: Nursecom, Inc.
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Great ideas once basic data and techniques are mastered
These approaches are not universally appropriate, but certainly have great relevance to several disciplines and target audiences.For a somewhat mature audience engaged in humanities or social sciences, or very mature and experienced audiences engaged in quantitative or rigorous scientific disciplines there is enormous utility.

The underlying principle is to administer new, hard data in small doses and allow the students to play with it (hopefully Drs. Wiler and Paul won't be too offended by this cavalier treatment of their work).The tactics recommended stress student involvement and interaction, reading and studying ahead, critical thinking, and reflection by the students.The student might not like this, but their opinions are secondary to results.

Candidly, this all very suspect.Encouraging students to have opinions, requiring the students to do open-ended assignments rather than true-false or multiple guess, and worst of all, encouraging students to ask questions calls the omniscience of the teachers into question.If students realize that there are limits to the knowledge of the professors, the students might realize that they can pursue aspects of a discipline that the professors have no experience with, then the professors will have their areas of inexperience exposed.The collapse of the academic institutions is the only possible outcome.

This is an excellent little book and should be read (even if not applied) by any educator.

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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 2915 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Crazy ideas 101: how to teach skeptical thinking in the classroom.
Author: Scott Calvin
Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
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This book is designed to provide teachers with an array of computer tools to promote reading, writing, and critical thinking in their classrooms.  It can be used by teachers who recognize the need to continue their education by becoming adept at using computers in their classrooms.  In short, this book covers the major concerns K-8 teachers face as they integrate computer technology into their classrooms and provides numerous suggestions for applying the ideas described in the book in real classrooms.  The discussion of literacy topics and pedagogy is grounded in research literature, best practice for teaching, and current successful technology integration strategies.

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As a teacher, finding a good book that it user friendly and filled with useful information is difficult. Adding to that, finding a book that has all of these things and is easy to use is down right impossible; however, Technology to Teach Literacy A Resource for K-8 Teachers is a fantastic book that successfully utilizes all of these things. This book is geared towards teachers and provides useful ways of using technology to improve literacy in kids kindergarten through eighth grade. As such, the book provides a wide spectrum of websites and strategies that are grade appropriate and useful for the target audience. Combined with screenshots of the sites themselves and easily labeled sections, the book has the "efficiency" of the teacher in mind. ... Read more

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