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Thinkback - A User's Guide to Minding the Mind (Hardcover)
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Thinkback - A User's Guide to Minding the Mind (Hardcover)
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The fundamental premise of Thinkback--based on overwhelming
scientific evidence--is that intelligence is not fixed at birth and
that, with consistent effort, we can dramatically improve our
capacities. It counters the claims of some psychologists that it is
impossible to increase intelligence because that ability is
determined at birth. Thinkback builds on the Think Aloud strategies
in Arthur Whimbey and Jack Lochhead's popular and widely used
volume, Problem Solving & Comprehension, now in its sixth
edition. Since its publication, thousands of students have used
these techniques for improving thinking and analytic reasoning to
increase test scores, win National Merit Scholarships, and gain
admission to top-ranked professional schools. Now, Thinkback shows
how these powerful strategies can be applied to a range of
important academic areas including mathematics, language arts,
social studies, and science. Thinkback is a tool for student
empowerment--a strategy they can use to improve both their ability
to think and their ability to learn. The Thinkback classroom, on
the other hand, is a design for teacher liberation--enabling them
to see learning more clearly than they ever could before. This is
the only book currently available that contains detailed models of
metacognitive dialogues in the classroom. These dialogues enable
teachers and teacher educators to observe thinking processes that
have previously been invisible and undetectable. Based on over 20
years of careful cognitive research, the dialogues provide teachers
with important insights into the nature of thinking and problem
solving. Thinkback is a picture window on the working mind. This
book: Describes the Thinkback strategy for making thinking
strategies explicit, easy to teach, and easy to learn. Includes
numerous detailed examples that demonstrate the Thinkback
technique. Six quite different learning strategies--deri
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