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About Thinking Skills
Thinking skills are cognitive processes that enable us to make meaning from and create with information. Often included under the definition of thinking skills are habits of mind or thinking behaviors that define attitudes and dispositions of good thinkers. Researchers (i.e. Beyer, Marzano, Perkins, Costa, Feurerstein) believe that students can be taught specific metacognitive strategies for thinking skills that allow them to more effectively and efficiently process information. They can also learn to demonstrate habits of mind or thinking behaviors in their daily activities. One way to organize thinking skill tools is to consider three categories (Art Costa):
Teaching For Thinking
This category includes tools that help to create school and classroom
conditions supportive of students exercising their thinking.
Questioning strategies and thinking behaviors would be examples of tools
that teach for thinking.
Teaching About Thinking
Under this category comes metacognition, or "thinking about
thinking," and the various tools that support students becoming
aware of their own thinking processes.
Teaching Of Thinking
This category represents the direct teaching of thinking skills,
including strategy instruction and the use of graphic organizers.
For other sources of information, see the Thinking Skills Tool Chest.
For a first hand view of the Tahoma School District see Visitor Days.
Questions about Thinking Skills Curriculum? Contact Nancy Skerritt by email or by phone at 425-413-3400.
Last Updated Monday January 06, 2003
Last Updated Friday March 04, 2005
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"Teaching For, Of , and About
Thinking," Art Costa,
Developing Minds, Volume I, Revised Edition, ASCD, 1991
