Thinking Skills Resources 

Teach Thought  by Terry Heick

30 Universal Strategies For Learning https://teachthought.com/critical-thinking/27-actions-that-promote-self-directed-learning/

Teach Thought. https://www.teachthought.com/author/terryheick/

Technology. https://www.teachthought.com/category/technology/


Depth and Complexity by Sandra Kaplan

     Description of Icons from Envision Gifted

     http://envisiongifted.com/services/understanding-depth-complexity/

        Universal Themes

        Concept Attainment

        Focus on an area

        Various curricular applications

Blooms Taxonomy and 3 Story Questioning Model by Costa and Kallick

Habits of Mind - Art Costa and Bella Kallick 16 areas for self directed learning. Questioning is one of them.

16 Habits of Mind list http://www.chsvt.org/wdp/Habits_of_Mind.pdf

Describing the Habits of Mind - a little more info. https://habitsofmind.org/sites/default/files/16HOM2.pdf


Bloom's Taxonomy and 3 Story Questioning Model by Costa and Kallick

Model in these links and directly correlates with Blooms Taxonomy.

https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.egusd.net/dist/8/289/files/2012/12/BLOOMS-TAXONOMY-AND-COSTAS-LEVELS-OF-QUESTIONING-WITH-PROMPTS-AND-TASKS-uph34h.pdf


Additional 3 Story Models....have a little different look based on who designed them. Also..one of them has the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes about 3 levels of thinking compared to stories. 

https://cicobb.typepad.com/files/3-story-intellect.pdf

http://web.claibornecountyschools.com/resources/files/2015/08/costas_levels_of_questioning.pdf

https://content.dodea.edu/VS/csieportfolio_14/docs/Costa's3storyintellect.pdf\

http://mrdaviswh.weebly.com/uploads/7/9/4/0/7940379/three_story_intellect.pdf

https://island94.org/2009/11/Three-Story-Intellect-Model.html


SilverStrong  The Thoughtful Classroom

   https://www.thoughtfulclassroom.net/index.php?act=aboutus

   Tools Resources https://toolsfortodayseducators.com/resource-center/

   About Thoughtful Classroom....https://thoughtfulclassroom.com/about-us/


Notice and Note for Fiction: Strategies for Close Reading  

http://www.noticeandnote.org/

Great read to bump up student thinking about their reading.

Fiction and NonFiction

introduce Notice and Note signposts withPixar Shorts that Align with Notice Note Signposts 

www3.princetonk12.org/.../PixarShortsthatAlignwithNoticeNoteSignposts.pdf\

Thinking Skills Resources

Information to support thinking and creativity.

Metacognition - Thinking about our Thinking

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/metacognition-gift-that-keeps-giving-donna-wilson-marcus-conyers

Neuroplasticity - article on training the brain to think in different ways

http://www.esc4.net/users/Documents/Bilingual%20Conference%20pdfs/BESL%20Conf%202015%20-%20Thompson%20-%20Teaching%20Neuroplasticity.pdf


Critical Thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.  

Critical thinking  1 http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766

Critical thinking 2 http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/our-concept-and-definition-of-critical-thinking/411


Productive Thinking - Hudsons model 

Creativity is incredibly important in problem-solving – if you're not creative, you'll struggle to understand the issues surrounding a problem, and you're unlikely to identify the best solutions. 

Productive thinking 1 https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/productive-thinking-model.htm

Productive thinking model 2 https://www.mycoted.com/Productive_Thinking_Model

Productive thinking model 3 http://www.designorate.com/problem-solving-hursons-production-thinking-model/

Productive Thinking 4 http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/prod.htm

Productive thinking  http://gth.krammerbuch.at/sites/default/files/articles/AHAH%20callback/01_Branchini.pdf


Deductive Reasoning - Deductive reasoning is a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. 

Deductive reasoning 1 http://www.livescience.com/21569-deduction-vs-induction.html

Deductive reasoning 2 http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/types_reasoning/deduction.htm

Julie Jaeger    Professional Development and Consulting

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