Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement

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—Sydney Chaffee

2017 National Teacher of the Year, Codman Academy Charter Public School, Dorchester, Massachusetts

“In one handy resource, Rebecca Stobaugh provides oodles of practical, engaging instructional strategies that any teacher will appreciate. What a useful resource!” —Tammy Heflebower

Coauthor, A Teacher’s Guide to Standards-Based Learning

“At last, a well-organized array of practical strategies to promote higher-level thinking every day, every time, by every teacher who is ready for the challenge of deeper 21st century learning!” —James A. Bellanca

President, Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools

K–12 teachers will: • Gain an understanding of the concepts of critical thinking and cognitive engagement, as well as the relationship between the two • Study the thinking levels in Bloom’s taxonomy revised, the cognitive processes associated with those levels, and how they establish a path to high-level thinking • Choose among fifty effective instructional strategies that encourage critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and media literacy in the classroom • Understand ten powerful methods for sustaining a classroom’s culture of thinking for the long term • Utilize Take Action sections and download free online reproducibles that will assist them in building a culture of thinking in the classroom

—Sandra Dop

Competency-Based Education Consultant, Indianola, Iowa

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Visit go.SolutionTree.com/instruction to download the free reproducibles in this book.

REBECCA STOBAUGH

“Rebecca Stobaugh walks carefully through doable strategies, while gradually increasing the levels of cognitive engagement and creative thinking that teachers can use to enhance a traditional classroom or engage in transitioning toward a more personalized, competency-based environment.”

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ransform your classroom culture from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student engagement. In this well-researched book, author Rebecca Stobaugh shares how to build a culture of thinking that emphasizes essential 21st century skills—from critical thinking and problem solving to teamwork and creativity. In communicating this essential knowledge, Stobaugh offers fifty teacher-tested instructional strategies for nurturing students’ cognitive abilities across the full range of thinking levels.

50 STRATEGIES TO BOOST COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT

“Whether you need a creative idea to get out of a lesson-planning rut or you’re thinking through ways to differentiate, Rebecca Stobaugh’s book offers teachers concrete strategies to engage students in the real work of thinking.”

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