Jean Edward's blog 'On Thinking' has some really useful information about thinking.
Her list of skills and techniques reminds us that there are many different kinds of thinking. Furthermore she suggests that teaching thinking is best done through deliberate acts of teaching.
The centres in the Nelson/Canterbury ECE ICT PL cluster who are interested in children's thinking are also finding that thinking skills are very effectively integrated and understood by children if they are deliberately taught, modelled, practised, and part of the daily life of the child and teacher.
...from her blog....
She refers to a paper by Kathleen Cotton 'Teaching Thinking Skills' which is a useful summary of some of the thinking tools, and a synthesis of many of the current ideas around thinking - it is well worth a visit if you are interested in children's thinking.
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