Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum 


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20 Thinking ToolsTwenty Thinking Tools is designed to support the development of collaborative enquiry-based teaching and learning through class discussion and small-group work.
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Analyse It! 10 Minute ActivatorsBrilliant 10-minute analysis activators! Teach and sharpen those analysis skills with these warm-ups.
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Asking Better QuestionsLearn a host of inventive new ways to encourage students to become more effective learners by posing more thoughtful questions.
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Bright SparksThe posters in this book are designed to help motivate pupils and improve their learning. There are over 100 photocopiable posters for use by teachers, parents and pupils. Ideal for classrooms, staffrooms, study areas and bedrooms.
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Connecting ConceptsFor teachers of English, PSHE, Citizenship, RE and the Humanities, this book introduces the strategy of 'concept gaming'
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Graphic ThinkersVisual organisation teams up with thinking skills to help guide and sequence students’ thought processes through to a logical result.
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HOW TO DEVELOP CHILDREN AS RESEARCHERSEnhance critical thinking skills by teaching children to engage in independent learning to explore issues which interest or concern them.
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How to Teach Thinking SkillsA Practical Guide full of Ready-to use Activities and Worksheets to Switch on the Ideas in your Students!
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Learning to Learn for Life 2This accessible guide explores realistic ways to improve education from the perspective of real teachers and their pupils, and presents strategies based on what actually works in primary classrooms.
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Let's Think!An innovative programme designed to develop the thinking abilities of 5 and 6 year olds
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MAKING MEANINGMaking Meaning is a handbook about ‘logovisual thinking’. Logvisual thinking is a flexible technique for stimulating and tracking thinking.
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MapwiseWise up, get mapping and get thinking! Get informed access to the most powerful accelerated learning techniques around.
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MIND MAPS FOR KIDSUsing clear and relevant examples, Tony Buzan explains how Mind Mapping can be used in every subject.
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More Bright SparksThis book contains over 100 posters to help learners develop their creativity, thinking skills and attitudes towards learning.
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More Thinking Through GeographyThis book provides more examples of strategies to raise the achievement of pupils in geography
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Pirates and PiracyA fun and very relevant Bloom's unit that not only investigates pirates of old, but also gives students an opportunity for class thinking and discussion on piracy today – the moral issues of copying videos, DVDs and copyright. Also included are maths and science sections on ‘Floating & Sinking’ and ‘Co-ordinates & Mapping’.
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Places for PetsYour students will thrive on this pets unit! Technology-based, it helps children to research, discuss, design and create, all in an effort to improve life-style conditions for pets.
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Q TASKSThis book shows teachers how to develop a questioning culture among pupils.
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Question StartersForty colourful A4 posters – one for each week of teaching – to remind students of the different important ways of analysing information and discussion, and to develop and expand their questioning techniques.
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Reaching Out to all LearnersThis booklet is intended as an aide-memoire for classroom teachers on some of the basic principles of Accelerated Learning.
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Reaching Out to All ThinkersThis booklet is designed to function in two ways: as an aide-memoire for those who are already familiar with the world of thinking skills, and as a simple overview for those to whom thinking skills is a new area.
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Teaching Complex ThinkingThis book explains the notion of complex thinking and provides a range of structures and strategies that will enable and encourage students to be better thinkers.
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The Advertising Big BookPacked with activities and extenders that cover problem solving, and creative and critical thinking skills.
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The Teacher's ToolkitA book full of useful classroom strategies to make teaching and learning more lively
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The Whole-Brain SolutionThe Whole-Brain Solution explores the primary thinking tools that are essential for students to become effective learners.
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Thinking for LearningThis book is a good introduction to the basic principles behind thinking skills
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Thinking Skills & Eye QA great compendium of visual tools – tables, charts and maps - for learning
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Thinking Skills and Problem-SolvingDiscover and develop your pupils' strengths across the multiple intelligences by improving their problem-solving skills.
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Thinking Skills Through ScienceThis book is a good introduction to strategies for thinking and learning skills in science
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Thinking Through GeographyA photocopiable resource to teachers create exciting and memorable lessons
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Thinking Through HistoryWhen teachers use this resource, the history curriculum becomes a vehicle for the teaching of thinking skills
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Thinking Through History: Britain 1066-1500This series has collections of games and simulations for a active approach to history
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Thinking Through Modern Foreign LanguagesThis book helps language teachers to improve their practice, make lessons more exciting and challenging
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Thinking Through Primary TeachingThis book is an excellent starter for teachers who want to integrate thinking skills into their schemes of work
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Thinking Through Religious EducationThis book provides many excellent examples of how strategies for developing thinking skills can enliven religious education in schools
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Thinking Through the CurriculumA good introduction to the tradition of thinking skills
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Thinking TogetherA programme of activities for developing speaking, listening and thinking skills for children aged 8-11 (New edition)
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Thinking VocabularyAnalogy-based worksheets that help students to learn and practise important critical thinking skills from the Essential Skills needed for real-world problem-solving.
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Thinking With EnglishA practical thinking resource for Key Stages 2 & 3
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Thinking, Talking, Exploring!At least 20 statements on each topic are given, which can easily be cut apart and handed out for pairs or groups of students to discuss and then organise under the headings ‘True’, ‘Need More Info’, or ‘False’.
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Top Ten Thinking TacticsBest-selling programme for getting young children to become active learners
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What's the Alternative?Three sequential steps (Think Outside the Square, Underlying Problems, Forming Criteria) to help students make up their minds about a situation. Activities show students (and adults) that there are often alternative solutions to problems – the skill is in seeing them!
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Wise-UpThe new sciences of brain and mind are revealing that everyone has the capacity to become a powerful, lifelong learner.
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Words and Minds: How We Use Language to Think TogetherWords and Minds takes a lively look at the usefulness of 'interthinking' - talking with other people to get something done
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