Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning (Experts In Assessment Series)

The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.

Education & Teaching

Costa, Arthur L.

Kallick, Bena

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

The contributors present a strong case for teaching the learning process--which evidence shows can be more effective than the teaching of specific disciplines.

Envisioning Process as Content: Toward a Renaissance Curriculum (1-off Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Liebmann, Rosemarie M.

Sociology

Supporting the Spirit of Learning: When Process Is Content

This work describes how curriculum development, instruction, assessment, and teaching are different in a process-oriented learning organization.

The Process-Centered School: Sustaining a Renaissance Community

This book details the steps that need to be taken to move from a traditional school system to a true learning organization.

This book provides accessible educational practices that teachers can use to infuse skillful thinking into standards-based content instruction in any subject area or grade level. With rich examples from practice, readers will learn to teach students how, for example, to find and use evidence to support conclusions, to develop and articulate creative ideas, to listen to others seriously and with understanding, and to communicate their thinking with clarity and precision. The authors demonstrate how taking time to frontload deliberate, selective thinking practices can propel students to higher levels of achievement. Specific chapters look at the role of metacognition in the classroom, translating good thinking into good writing, and assessment of progress in thinking. 
Featuring the collaborative work of renowned authors and professional development leaders, this resource shows teachers how to help their students develop habits of effective thinking and dispositions for learning―like persistence and self-regulation―that will ultimately improve their work in other courses and grades and in their lives overall.

Thinking-Based Learning: Promoting Quality Student Achievement in the 21st Century

Science & Math

Beyer, Barry K.

Swartz, Robert J.

Reagan, Rebecca

Behavioral Sciences

Teachers' College Press

Building on the authors’ celebrated work in Cognitive Coaching, this important book provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance, and their ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness of their own ability to make effective judgments based on all their capabilities and experiences. When teachers weave internal expertise and external criteria together into the exquisite tapestry of teaching and learning, they gain confidence in their ability to make a difference for all students. Rather than spending time becoming better inspectors and enforcers, Cognitive Capital calls for skillful leaders to engage educators’ thought processes in order to promote practices that have lasting impacts on their students.

Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality

Garmston, Robert J.

Zimmerman, Diane P.

Explores an educational approach that directs students in how to think and behave intelligently when they encounter problems and challenges in learning and in life.

Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

The authors apply their extensive, well documented research and personal experience to the task of developing critical thinking in the classroom. This book provides significant support for the teacher -- "who can," as Drs. Costa and Lowery state, "grow intelligence."

Techniques for Teaching Thinking (Practitioner Guide to Teaching Thinking Series)

Lowery, Lawrence F.

Midwest Publications

Formerly a SkyLight publication This collection of articles provides you with effective strategies for integrating thinking instruction into your lesson plans and inspiring student thinking.

The School as a Home for the Mind: A Collection of Articles

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Books by Costa, Arthur L.

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Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning (Experts In Assessment Series)

Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning (Experts In Assessment Series)

Envisioning Process as Content: Toward a Renaissance Curriculum (1-off Series)

Supporting the Spirit of Learning: When Process Is Content

The Process-Centered School: Sustaining a Renaissance Community

Thinking-Based Learning: Promoting Quality Student Achievement in the 21st Century

Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality

Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind

Techniques for Teaching Thinking (Practitioner Guide to Teaching Thinking Series)

The School as a Home for the Mind: A Collection of Articles