It takes the average reader 9 hours and 3 minutes to read Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking Into Content Instruction by Robert J. Swartz
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This book explores the concept of combining effective classroom techniques for teaching students to become good thinkers with effective strategies to engage students in thoughtful learning of the regular elementary school curriculum. The technique of lesson design and instruction that results is called "infusing critical and creative thinking into content instruction." Part one, which explains the lesson plans concept and designing infusion lessons, also provides reproducible lesson plan forms. Part two addresses engaging in complex thinking tasks and provides sample lessons and reproducible materials in the areas of decision making and problem solving. Part three focuses on understanding, retention, and clarifying ideas. This section provides sample lessons and reproducible materials on comparing and contrasting, classification, determining parts and whole relationships, sequencing, finding reasons and conclusions, and uncovering assumptions. Part four addresses creative thinking and provides sample lessons and reproducible materials on generating possibilities and creating metaphors. Part five focuses on critical thinking and provides sample lessons and reproducible materials on determining the reliability of sources, causal explanations, prediction, generalization, reasoning by analogy, and conditional reasoning. Part six addresses designing and teaching infusion lessons, focusing on instructional methods, the role of metacognition, and selecting contexts for inclusion lessons. (SD)
Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking Into Content Instruction by Robert J. Swartz is 541 pages long, and a total of 135,791 words.
This makes it 183% the length of the average book. It also has 166% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 22 minutes to read Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking Into Content Instruction aloud.
Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking Into Content Instruction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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