Teaching Our Children to Think “Teaching Our Children to Think is easy to read and user-friendly. Creative and critical thinking skills are crucial in today’s world. Langrehr has given teachers a useful and practical tool for helping their students improve their learning and experience greater success in school and in the real world.” ––Marge Christensen Gould, Teacher/Coordinator, Arizona Supreme Court LEARN Center, Catalina High Magnet School, Tucson, AZ; Member of All-USA Teacher First Team 2000, sponsored by USA Today
“I’m very impressed. This is an excellent step-by-step presentation with very usable examples and problems.” ––Lawrence A. Parker, Executive Director, The Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction, Inc.
Teaching Our Children to Think provides valuable techniques for teaching students how to learn the thinking skills they need to move from simply memorizing content to making meaningful connections with what they learn.
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John Langrehr, Ph.D., has written 12 books and more than 50 articles on improving student thinking processes. An educator and psychologist, Dr. Langrehr’s career includes teaching in American and Australian high schools and more than 25 years as a cognitive psychologist at the University of South Australia.
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The over 200 exercises in this resource are designed to develop many of the core thinking processes that have been identified by educators as essential critical thinking skills, including questioning, classifying, inferring, and predicting. Students will learn how to improve their Mental organization Analytical thinking Critical thinking Creative thinking
This resource includes two pretests, a special section with exercises to help students apply their thinking skills to new content, and an appendix section with possible answers and an outline of helpful strategies for the core thinking processes.
Teaching Our Children to Think
Thinking Skills / Student Achievement
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