• English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies that Work
  This learner-empowering text by Larry Ferlazzo offers educators a five-step methodology for teaching that builds on students' assets rather than viewing ELLs through the typical lens of "deficits". The five principles around which the process revolves are: building relationships, accessing prior knowledge through student stories, developing student leadership, learning by doing, and reflection. The book emphasizes "high-order" thinking skills. In addition to providing detailed lessons, the book shares a framework teachers can use to create their own lessons, and it shows how to take advantage of technology and games as teaching tools.
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• English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking
  Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.Strongly recommended by Jim Cummins
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• Improving Reading, Writing, Thinking and Content Achievement (MUST SEE)
  This website is through Township High School District 214. This site includes reading and/or thinking skills, and links for printable graphic organizers and assignment templates. The organizers and writing templates scaffold the writing tasks with sample language. Rec. by: Sam Markey
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• Introduction to Teaching Strategies
  This page is dedicated to making it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and techniques. Scroll down to find scores of teaching strategies that help students take more responsibility for their own learning and enhance the process of teaching for learning.
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• K12 Core Curriculum (Must see)
  Utah Education Network This site provides support for curriculum development, interactives across the grade levels and very beneficial links for Math, World Resources, Interactive Projects and Learning Community. Rec. by Suzanne Havilecek Does not include"understandings", but very helpful resources.
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• Mosaic Listserve Tools
  Great forms/graphic organizers for student reading and writing thinking strategies. Multiple Resources and Materials * Assessment * Lesson Plans * Parents* Writing * Other * Photographs * Staff Development * PowerPoint Pesentations * Worksheet / Reporting Forms, etc.
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• Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy
  Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy What are critical thinking and creative thinking? What's Bloom's taxonomy and how is it helpful in project planning? How are the domains of learning reflected in technology-rich projects?
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• Critical Thinking in Education (skills for life)
  This site explains in depth what critical thinking is and explains why teachers need to teach these skills. Rec. by Colorin Colorado newsletter
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• Essential Questions in Teaching and Learning
  Inquiring into Essential Questions gives teaching and learning purposeful, meaningful and "big picture" focus for learning details and ideas. It engages higher mental and emotional capacities at a time when "high stakes" testing trivializes students' thinking and learning.
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• Instructional Strategies Online: Concept Attainment
  Concept Attainment is an indirect instructional strategy that uses a structured inquiry process. It is based on the work of Jerome Bruner. In concept attainment, students figure out the attributes of a group or category that has already been formed by the teacher. See other strategies in the HOME link
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• Introduction to Thinking Skills
  Instructional Framework This site provides templates for educators to use to enhance higher order thinking skills, including samples of types of questions that can stimulate students to think more critically. Rec. by Colorin Colorado
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• Introduction to Thinking Skills
  This page is designed for busy practitioners trying to design performance assessment tasks that align standards and benchmarks with assessments that really measure what's valued and that incorporate higher order thinking skills.
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• Lateral thinking
  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Math examples of lateral thinking, consideration of real-life variables when solving a math problem.
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• Learning Skills Program
  Bloom's Taxonomy Here you can read more about the different stages behind this theory, as it also provides educators with a short description of each thinking skill.
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• Q Tasks: How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers
  View entire book online. Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaanh off this step-by-step book which outlines more than 80 tried-and-proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorization and rote learning. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on personal understanding and give them ownership of their learning experience
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• The Constructivist View of Education
  Enhance Learning with Technology provides an overview of the Principles of Constructivism and Related links
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• The Reading Lady
  Laura created Readinglady.com to provide support to teachers throughout the country. (Not ESL specific) There are many free resources housed here, along with discussion groups. See Mosaic Tools and Resources! See their PowerPoints. Literacy Garden is GREAT.
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• Thinking Visually: Step-by-Step Exercises That Promote Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learning
  The visual learning strategies presented throughout the book by Oliver Caviglioli and Ian Harriswill help students demonstrate their own thinking, increase their capacity to learn, and assume ownership and responsibility for their learning. Simple approaches to mastering the visual presentation of information range from exercises in categorization to persuasive student examples that illustrate thinking principles. A number of ready-to-use reproducible worksheets complement the text and make it easier to put these strategies to work right away.
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• Welcome to the SuperThinkers Website!
  This is a site where students with more advanced English proficiency can practice using higher thinking skills. It provides opportunities for them to analyze information and to solve problems while they are having fun. They can also practice their reading skills! Rec. by Colorin Colorado
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• Bloom's Taxonomy
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