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Teaching Thinking Skills - Coggle Diagram
Teaching Thinking Skills
Importance
Crucial in today's rapidly changing world.
Essential for effectively learning and processing new information.
Fundamental for educated individuals, responsible citizens, and employable workers.
Definition of Thinking Skills
Set of basic and advanced skills and subskills.
Govern a person's mental processes.
Includes knowledge, dispositions, and cognitive/metacognitive operations.
Types of Thinking Skills Discussed
Critical Thinking (determining authenticity, accuracy, value).
Creative Thinking (novel ways of seeing or doing things).
Higher-Order Thinking Skills (based on Bloom's Taxonomy, e.g., analysis, synthesis, evaluation).
Impact (Research Findings)
Thinking skills instruction has a positive impact on student achievement.
Specific skills (study skills, creative/critical thinking, metacognition) show gains in learning and intelligence.
Instructional Approaches & Strategies
Redirection/Probing/Reinforcement.
Asking higher-order questions.
Lengthening wait-time.
Computer-assisted instruction (shown to be beneficial).
Controversies/Approaches to Instruction
Infused vs. Separate programs (research supports both).
Some experts recommend teaching skills directly before applying to content.