Description
Product ID: | 9781412950749 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The School as a Home for the Mind |
Subtitle: | Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue |
Authors: | Author: Arthur L. Costa |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Educational psychology, Educational psychology, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking—and the teaching of thinking—looks and sounds like.
"What is the next best thing to having the opportunity to be in one of Art Costa''s presentations? It is clearly the opportunity to read and reread his work. He has a knack for making the theoretical understandable and the practical ''practice-able.''" "Art Costa has done more than anyone I can think of to advance the practical cause of more thoughtful education." Create a culture where the process of thinking is the content of instruction! This unique guide reflects the author''s best and most recent research, theory, and practice for the teaching of thinking. Arthur L. Costa explains why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons, illustrates what the instruction of thinking looks like in the classroom, and identifies the curricular changes that can have the most positive impact. The text also examines:
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Imprint Name: | Corwin Press Inc |
Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-12-05 |