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The most effective way to teach thinking skills.

The National Strategies require that as teachers we have to integrate the teaching of thinking skills into everyday classroom practice. Which, by and large, is easier said than done.

We know that we want our student to become creative thinkers, independent enquirers and reflective learners, but the question still remains: what is the best way to achieve this?

The answer has to be, to help the students to use a wide range of thinking strategies, so that the student can find the approaches that are the most appropriate for the task in hand, and the ones with which he/she feels most comfortable.

"Reaching Out To All Thinkers" does just this, by incorporating such approaches as:

* De-bono - Six Hats and CoRT
* Lipman's Philosophy for Children
* Blooms taxonomy
* Creativity
* Critical Thinking
* Harris and Caviglioli's Visual Tools for thinking
* Problem solving
* Questions for thinking and more

• Author(s): Oliver Caviglioli, Ian Harris
• Published: 2004