This practical resource shows educators how to use the Internet to help students communicate electronically, reaching beyond the borders of traditional classroom walls. The authors―a lifelong professional developer and a dedicated facilitator of improved K–12 education through her work with graduate students in school leadership―provide the how-to for teaching essential foundation elements, including teamwork, Internet research, evaluation of information sources, cross-cultural communication, and thinking skills. Emphasizing practical tools and techniques, their model integrates the internet, common school software, and free online technology tools to create engaging projects that advance 21st-century skills. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Clear steps for teaching Internet-infused projects that meet content standards, while also targeting issues that students find relevant.</li> <li> Examples of project collaborations that link students with classrooms across districts, states, and nations.</li> <li> A user-friendly format with checklists, resources, and sample lesson templates to help teachers design their own projects.</li>
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Classrooms Without Borders: Using Internet Projects to Teach Communication and Collaboration

Education & Teaching

Bellanca, James A.

Stirling, Terry

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

Featuring practical “how-to” classroom examples, this teacher-friendly introduction examines the importance of an essential set of thinking skills that supports the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and future success for students in 21st-century life, school, and work. Starting with cognitive psychologist Reuven Feuerstein’s pioneering Theory of Mediated Learning, the author provides a rationale for teaching skills that focuses on deeper learning and connects to CCSSs. These include distinguishing what is important from what is not, thinking critically and creatively, sorting and searching information, connecting ideas, and problem solving. Each chapter introduces the what, the why, and the how to do it for explicit, intentional incorporation of specific content-crossing competencies. The text is designed to make it easy for teachers to integrate the development of important cognitive functions into their daily lessons. Book Features: <ul>
<li> Offers research-supported best practices for developing higher-order thinking skills with all learners.</li> <li> Provides engaging, how-to examples of cognitive strategies that lead students to deeper learning of standards-aligned curricula. </li> <li> Includes the tools teachers need to escape the recall curriculum and make cognition central to daily instruction for all students.</li>
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The Focus Factor: 8 Essential Twenty-First Century Thinking Skills for Deeper Student Learning

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Values and the search for self

National Education Association

If you are convinced of the importance of teaching critical and creative thinking skills in the classroom, this is a must-have resource. Twenty-four skills are presented along with ready-to-use sample lessons.

Teach Them Thinking: Mental Menus for 24 Thinking Skills

Fogarty, Robin J.

Corwin

Building a caring, cooperative classroom: A social skills primer

Skylight Pub

Formerly a SkyLight publication. Bellanca′s The Cooperative Think Tank II: Graphic Organizers to Teach Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom arms educators with techniques for empowering students to be self-directed learners and aid them in discovering their own internal motivation and problem-solving skills. Offering 12 new graphic organizers in addition to the dozen presented in The Cooperative Think Tank I, this book includes an "invent your own" model as well. The graphic organizers can be easily implemented into any classroom from primary through college levels.

The Cooperative Think Tank II: Graphic Organizers to Teach Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom

Formerly a SkyLight publication. The Cooperative Think Tank: Graphic Organizers to Teach Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom hands teachers pre-tested and re-useable tools that motivate students to think more skillfully, to work together, and to increase their achievement level. By using author James Bellanca′s thought-provoking graphic organizers, students visually lay out what they′re thinking, organize their thoughts, and expand their thought process on any topic-all of which create a more positive and challenging classroom environment and more well-rounded students.

The Cooperative Think Tank: Graphic Organizers to Teach Thinking in the Cooperative Classroom

Formerly a SkyLight publication. This edited collection from Robin Fogarty and James Bellanca consolidates the best research and writing available about Gardner`s multiple intelligences theory. Leading proponents of the thoughtful classroom introduce, examine, and support evidence that this theory is effective with all your students.

Multiple Intelligences: A Collection

Formerly a SkyLight publication. What is professional development and how does it differ from in-service and staff development? Find out in this comprehensive analysis. Designing Professional Development for Change: A Systemic Approach belongs in every professional′s library.

Designing Professional Development for Change: A Systemic Approach

In this timely new look at elementary science education, you will find creative ways to engage students to think and act like eager future scientists. Science Alive! is for classroom teachers, scientists, and administrators to help them provide ways to practice simple tactics for adopting Project Based Inquiry as their chief instructional tool. Project Based Inquiry is a philosophy, when aligned with the new science standards, develops 21st Century Skills, and leads to deeper science learning outcomes for all students. This practical no-nonsense book has well-tested examples to make PBI an easy and simple tool to implement. With Science Alive!, science will come alive as your students learn to think, act, and conduct themselves as scientists while learning from doing the required science in your curriculum and meeting the goals of core standards.

Science Alive!: Creating Next Generation Science Projects

Bellanca Ph.D., Mary Josephine

Koney, Ashley

International Renewal Press INC

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