Ways of Teaching Thinking Thinking through Thinkpoints	Ways of Thinking Contents Introduction Thinking through Thinkpoints     - Big Ideas     - Practical Profile     - Action Guide Thinking through Dispositions     - Big Ideas     - Practical Profile     - Action Guide Thinking through Transfer     - Big Ideas     - Practical Profile     - Action Guide Thinking through Assessment     - Big Ideas     - Practical Profile     - Action Guide
Introducing ThinkPoints... Teaching Through Thinkpoints is an instructional technique that promises to help students develop their thinking skills and dispositions. This approach fits naturally into the Thinking Classroom and can be woven together with the Teaching for Understanding approach as a tool for deepening student understanding. The Thinking Through ThinkPoints approach helps you identify and build on naturally arising opportunities for good thinking during the course of the school day. Some of these opportunities might arise directly from the curriculum, such as considering a historical decision, or predicting how a certain set of actions or policies might impact the environment. Others arise from day-to-day events such as figuring out how to raise money for a field trip, or verifying conflicting versions about a playground mishap. These opportunities - thinkpoints - are used as a starting point from which you can delve into an issue, while simultaneously teaching the critical and creative skills that will deepen understanding of the topic or issue.
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