Thinking Tools Lessons

Book excerpt: 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.