Carole Hamilton

Critical Thinking for Better Learning (eBook, ePUB)

New Insights from Cognitive Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Thinking for Better Learning shifts the focus from teaching to learning and from presenting information to creating challenges that teach students how to think in your discipline. The shift derives from three new insights from cognitive science: that we think by analogy, that we learn best when we process clear, focused sources and develop our own theories about our findings, and that there are key threshold concepts that define the discipline and make it attractive to young practitioners. This book explains each of these insights in direct, clear language, with examples of how to implement them in your own classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475827804
• Artikelnr.: 45222577

Autorenporträt

By Carole Hamilton

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section I:How Students Learn Best
Chapter 1: We Learn through Analogies Section II:Why Much of Our Teaching
is Ineffective Chapter 2: How We Should (and Should Not) Teach Section III:
Teaching to the Student's Natural Learning Style Chapter 3: Where to Focus:
Identify Threshold Concepts Chapter 4:What to Teach: Choose Topics and
Texts that Exemplify Threshold Concepts Chapter 5:How to Teach: Design
Lessons that Compel Students to Confront their Misconceptions Chapter 6:How
to Assess: Design Ways to Gauge Students' Critical Thinking Conclusion
Appendix A: How People Learn Appendix B: Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Appendix C: Student Retention with Schemas and Analogies Appendix D:
Threshold Concepts Appendix E: Sample Threshold Concepts and Skills
Appendix F: Sample Student Challenges Appendix G: How to Assess Critical
Thinking Recommended Reading/Viewing References