Pathways to Thinking Schools

Give students the essential thinking skills they need to thrive.  Content-focused teaching may yield marginal improvements in test scores, but leaves students without the cognitive skills and dispositions for success in an information-overloaded world that requires deep thinking, collaborative problem solving, and emotional intelligence.  David Hyerle has brought exciting models for enabling students to drive their own thinking and learning to schools in every corner of the world, with outstanding results. In this book, Hyerle presents case studies of schools and educators who have applied these models, in some cases system-wide, to ensure every student can thrive in an increasingly complex future. Among his powerful concepts for short and long-term improvement are: Visual Tools for Thinking—The nonlinguistic tools that have made Hyerle’s famous "Thinking Maps" model so successful Dispositions for Mindfulness—a language for students to improve their intellectual-emotional behaviors as they learn Questioning for Inquiry—A system for developing students’ abilities to ask questions in the context of a developing Community of Inquiry, including the use of Bloom’s revised Taxonomy and the Six Hats Thinking® model   Ultimately, Pathways to Thinking Schools synthesizes the potential of smart content-based teaching  with the powerful thinking skills and dispositions that supercharge the educational experience.  "In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally." —Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer National Urban Alliance

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Foreword by Yvette Jackson Preface Acknowledgments About the Editors About the Contributors 1. Catalyst: Thinking Schools as a Catalyst for Transformational Change 2. Imperative Working to Avoid Intellectual Apartheid - Elizabeth Dellamora Questions for Enquiry 3. Brain-Mind Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds - Kimberly Williams Questions for Enquiry 4. Criteria Criteria for a Thinking Schools Approach - Bob Burden Questions for Enquiry 5. Journey Journey Toward Becoming a Thinking School - Gill Hubble Questions for Enquiry 6. School The Tree of Learning - Richard Coe Questions for Enquiry 7. System A System-Wide Vision for Thinking - Donna J. DeSiato and Judy Morgan Questions for Enquiry 8. Language Thinking Language Learners - Estee Lopez and Larry Alper Questions for Enquiry 9. Coaching Improving the Quality of Teaching Through Visual Coaching and Supervision - Kathy Ernst Questions for Enquiry 10. Leading Leading Connectively - Larry Alper and David Hyerle Questions for Enquiry 11. Country Thinking Schools Ethiopia - Robert Seth Price and Bereket Aweke Questions for Enquiry Appendix Index

About the Author :
David Hyerle is an independent researcher, author, and consultant focused on literacy, thinking-process instruction, and whole-school change. He is the developer of the Thinking Maps language and is presently codirector of Designs for Thinking, a consulting and research group based in New England.

Review :
"In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally; schools where students will be equipped to think dialectically, reflecting on the ramifications and possibilities of interdependence; schools where students will be cultivated to transform themselves to be self-actualized and who make contributions to transform the world so this millennium is the one in which we achieve the global success of cooperation, high productivity globally, and innovation of efficient and effective use of our most promising and productive resource: our mind and the thinking it generates."