1. The Starting Block (A Thinking through Dispositions activity)
Getting ready to learn is powerful critical thinking move to make when learning about a new topic. People rarely come to a learning situation, like learning about teaching thinking for example, without any prior thoughts or questions. The Starting Block helps you shape your questions and preliminary ideas into an active readiness to learn about the teaching of thinking.	Play our on-line Starting Block Read more about the Starting Block
2. Tip Sheet for Teaching Transfer (A Thinking through Transfer resource)
This tip sheet provides teachers with practical guidelines for cultivating transfer in the classroom. The sheet outlines two types of transfer - "hugging" and "bridging." Both types help students deepen and secure their understanding by attending to the 10 thinking options outlined below. How to Use the 10 Tips for Transfer Tip Sheet: Use the Transfer Tip Sheet to help you identify specific thinking performances that invite transfer of learning across subjects or domains Use to help you identify thinking-centered understanding goals as you design your curriculum or plan lesson Use as a resource to introduce and cue students to specific types of thinking associated with transfer understanding performances	Read the 10 Tips on-line Download the Word version View the PDF version
3. "The Magnificent 7" (A Thinking through Dispositions resource)
Researchers at Project Zero sometimes playfully refer to their cluster of seven thinking dispositions as "The Magnificent 7." While there are certainly any number of thinking dispositions and sub-dispositions one might identify, researchers have singled out 7 thinking dispositions that appear to capture a broad-reaching set of behaviors, attitudes, skills that closely correspond with achieving deep understanding. Thinking dispositions are: learnable clusters of inclinations, abilities, and sensitivities, and habits of mind that are expressed in on-going patterns of intellectual behavior power and productive thinking attitudes We invite you to become familiar with each of the dispositions and begin thinking about what thinking dispositions you value most in your classroom, as you design curriculum.	Read the "Magnificent 7" on-line Download the Word version View the PDF version

 

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