Critical Literacy/critical Teaching
Critical Literacy/critical Teaching

Author: Cheryl Dozier

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780807746455

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This book describes and documents an exciting new approach to educating literacy teachers. The authors show how to help teachers develop their own critical literacy, while also preparing them to accelerate the literacy learning of struggling readers. The text takes readers inside a literacy lab in a high-poverty urban elementary school, reveals the instructional approach in action, and provides many excellent examples of critically responsive teaching. Featuring a synthesis of several fields of theory and research, this book: illustrates teacher preparation and development as personal and social transformation - demonstrating that this process requires changing the ways teachers think about students, language, culture, literacy, learning, and themselves as educators; provides pedagogical tools - including the history of the innovative literacy lab, the context of the instructional interactions, and the transition from a university-based to a school-based project; and combines critical and accelerative literacy instruction, showing how teachers can accelerate the slowest developing readers in their classrooms and also build a sense of engagement for students with the social world.

Preparation for Critical Instruction
Preparation for Critical Instruction

Author: Victor P. Maiorana

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1475825420

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Preparation for Critical Instruction! is written for teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, professional developers, principals, superintendents, and education deans. It provides an operational core body of knowledge for critical instruction. As with doctors, engineers, and lawyers, ownership of the language, standards, preparation, and practice is now a reality for the teaching profession. This book takes the mind’s innate and informal ability to think critically and transforms and develops it for use in an explicit, formal, and critical manner for engaging subject matter. For use in teacher preparation and professional development programs, you will learn to Use critical reasoning strategies to think, read, write, understand, comprehend, and explain new and revisited subject matter critically. Design mind grammar-based classroom assignments that explain subject matter critically while concurrently developing critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities in all students. This book provides the instructional basis to improve significantly the achievement of all students at all levels. Better placed to meet the school, college, workplace, and citizen needs of life in the digital 21st century, professional practice will be substantially more tangible, respected, and universally prized.

Fixing Instruction
Fixing Instruction

Author: Victor P. Maiorana

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-10-21

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1475822308

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There is no core foundation for critical instruction. Such instruction leads students to think, read, and write critically in the context of gaining comprehension of new and revisited subject matter. Although long sought, critical instruction remains an unrealized professional vision. The result, at all levels, is weak instructional preparation and practice, and poor student achievement. The purpose of this book is to fix instruction by providing the teaching profession with a core body of knowledge for critical instruction.

Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments
Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments

Author: Mariano, Gina J.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-01-25

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 1522578242

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Learning strategies for critical thinking are a vital part of today’s curriculum as students have few additional opportunities to learn these skills outside of school environments. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for pre-service teachers to learn how to infuse critical thinking skill development in every academic subject to assist future students in developing these skills. The Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of critical thinking that highlights ways to effectively use critical thinking strategies and implement critical thinking skill development into courses. While highlighting topics including deep learning, metacognition, and discourse analysis, this book is ideally designed for educators, academicians, researchers, and students.

Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking

Author: Richard Paul

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13:

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In a world of shallow values, instant gratification, and quick fixes, this book is for those readers who see the benefit of intellectual traits, standards, and abilities that will enable them to cut through the propaganda, the information blitz, and make sense of the world. In this anthology of his major papers, Richard Paul explains how to help students become intellectually fit, how to build the intellectual muscle to overcome inherent self-deceptive tendencies and rise to the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Thinking Like a Lawyer
Thinking Like a Lawyer

Author: Colin Seale

Publisher:

Published: 2025

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781003482147

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"Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But, in reality, critical thinking is still a luxury good, and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. This bestselling book introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gap, gives teachers the tools and knowledge to teach critical thinking to all students, empowers students to tackle 21st-century problems, and teaches students how to compete in a rapidly changing global marketplace. Colin Seale, a teacher-turned-attorney-turned-education-innovator and founder of thinkLaw, uses his unique experience to introduce a wide variety of concrete instructional strategies and examples that teachers can use in all grade levels. Individual chapters address underachievement, the value of nuance, evidence-based reasoning, social-emotional learning, equitable education, and leveraging families to close the critical thinking gap. In addition to offering examples for Math, Science, ELA, and Social Studies, this timely, updated second edition adds a variety of new examples and applications for Physical Education, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, and Career and Technical Education"--

Teach Like the Mind Learns
Teach Like the Mind Learns

Author: Victor P. Maiorana

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-02-08

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1475827970

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This book provides the profession with across-discipline illustrations of classroom assignments that utilize and develop the mind’s innate but informal gift to think critically. By applying the universal gift formally, faculty, for the first time, can lead all students to think, read, listen, write, speak, and observe critically while concurrently comprehending new and revisited subject matter. This work is for use as a textbook in teacher preparation and professional development programs. Teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, and professional developers are shown how to explicitly apply mind grammar to the design of classroom assignments. Disadvantaged, English language learners, general, and special education students will all have their innate abilities to reason critically nurtured and developed. Teach Like the Mind Learns, along with Fixing Instruction and Preparation for Critical Instruction, provides the teaching profession with ownership - as with doctors, engineers, and lawyers – of its language, standards, preparation, and practice. The merging of subject matter instruction with the development of critical language abilities is now a reality for the teaching profession. The consequences are that faculty practice and student achievement will be substantially more tangible, respected, and universally prized.

Thinking Tools Lessons
Thinking Tools Lessons

Author: Donald J. Treffinger

Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1882664639

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Thinking Tools Lessons is a user-friendly guide to help any teacher make productive thinking a part of classroom instruction for all students. This book provides nine carefully designed, classroom-tested sample lessons to start students on the road to creative and critical thinking. Each lesson includes a practical, ready-to-use plan, but also allows you to modify the lesson easily to meet your students' interests and needs. Each lesson guides you in preparing instruction, carrying out the plan, closing and debriefing the session, and conducting follow-up activities. The lessons in this book deal with "tools for thinking." These materials will help you learn the tools and then apply them with your students. And, the lessons make productive thinking lively and exciting! Book jacket.