Processes Using Thinking Skills
Reflecting on one's own thinking
Metacognition
Restating the main points in the fewest words possible
What is Summarizing
A common graphic orgnizer to show different and alike items
What is Venn Diagram
Classroom activities that replicate and reflect activities that occur in people's lives outside the classroom
What is Authentic Learning
Conveying ideas and information in a visual graphic form
What is Representing?
The process of analyzing, describing, modelling and synthesizing information.
What is Critical Thinking?
A way of using your creativity to search for an original or previously unknown solution to a problem.
What is Creative Problem Solving ?
Process by which students use observation skills to gather data and draw conclusions by touring the work of their peers.
What is a Gallery Walk?
A set of steps to attain the best product in writing projects
What is process writing
A process during which teachers or students reflect on their own practice with the help of a mentor or colleague
What is Cognitivr Coaching?
A mental process of searching for an original and previously unknown solution to a problem
Creative Problem Solvong
Breaking up learning into chunks and providing a structure for each chunk.
What is Scaffolding?
An organizer to help students identify what they know about a concept, what they need to know and what they learned.
What iis KWL
An educational approach of using groups to enhance learning through working together.
What is Collaborative (or Cooperative) Learning?
The use of a variety of processes and resources simultneously or over time for greater success in reachung all learners.
What is: Differentiation
Rewriting something or restaing something in your own words giving the same detail as the source.
What is Paraphrasing?
Use of a narrative elementto humanize and deepen learning while building empathy and community and exploring diverse cultures.
What is storytelling?
A structure used to organize ideas in the form of a web with connections linking many related thoughts.
Structires used to organiza ideas in the form of a webwith lines linking many related thoughts.
What are Thinking Maps or Mind Maps?
The knowledge, attitude and summ of skills needed to obtain informaation, evaluate it critically and know when and how to use it.
What is Media Literacy?
An open ended question that stimulates thought and inquiry linked to the content and leads to enduring understanding
What is an essential question?
Students design questions and problems, select processes and resources, and develop responses/questions to their question or problem.
What is Inquiry based Learning.
Students truly comprehend the main ideas and bg details of a text by multiple readings.
What is Close Reading?
The contribution of a free flow of ideas to explore what students know or may want to know.
What is Brainstorming?
A discussion or structured contest about an issue or resolutioninvolving two sides; one supporting and one opposing.
What is a Debate?
A term describing how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.
Globalization