Shaping of Thought (eBook)

A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and Critical Thinking in Response to Literature

Frank T. Lyman Jr., Charlene Lopez, Arlene Mindus (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
120 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-3033-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a procedural and exemplified guide to metacognitive mapping and is built upon the central purpose of student-generated connections between life and literature.

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The Shaping of Thought: A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and CriticalThinking in Response to Literature provides a strategic and structured approach to the use of cognitive mapping in response to literature. The allied metacognitive strategy of ThinkTrix, incorporating seven basic thinking types, or mind actions, has emerged from elementary student-created cognitive maps known as ThinkLinks, a student friendly term. Students had labeled their thinking on the ThinkLinks and from the hundreds of work samples, the seven types of thinking were identified. Placed in a matrix with focal points, the thinking types became the ThinkTrix. Originally thought to be cues for teacher questioning, students soon took on the mind actions for their own questioning, responding, and mapping. The book offers a procedural and exemplified guide to metacognitive mapping and is built upon the central purpose of student-generated connections between life and literature.Once teachers and students have adopted or adapted the suggested framework and strategies in The Shaping of Thought, they will always have visual andaware representation of thinking as a learning tool. Problem solving, decision making, inquiring, and creating will have joined with an indispensible means to lifetime learning and to the goal of constructing what Jerome Bruner called "e;structures of knowledge"e;. Along with a teaching strategy, the book includes strong philosophical underpinnings with "e;The Kaleidoscope of Learning"e;, teacher/student tools, numerous activities, and samples of student work. Taken seriously, the Guide will deepen the understanding of literature and life in the direction of the "e;Big Ideas"e;, as envisioned by McTighe and Wiggins and by so many teachers.

Autor

Frank Lyman is a former teacher and teacher educator. His contributions to education are as co-inventor and developer of Think-Pair-Share, ThinkTrix, and ThinkLinks along with reflective strategies for teacher professional development.Charlene López is a former elementary school teacher who provided the structure for the ThinkLink strategy, focusing on student understanding of literary characters through analysis of their traits and feelings, thus leading students to a deeper under-standing of literature and of themselves. Toward these purposes, she developed with students an Idea Book to help them make a personal connection with the characters, stressing universal themes and creating in her classes a community of learners and a unity of ideas.Arlene Mindus is a former teacher, university supervisor, elementary school principal, and a pioneer in cooperative learning. She was co-inventor with Frank Lyman of Think-Pair-Share and helped to develop ThinkLinks and ThinkTrix.

Inhalt

DedicationForeword—Jay McTighePrefaceAcknowledgementsThinklink Prototype ShapesIntroductionTHE THINKLINK CLASSROOM THINKTRIX: ONE-SIDEDTHINKTRIX DISCUSSION BOARD: TWO-SIDED MATRIXTYPES OF THINKING: THINKTRIX QUESTION EXAMPLES AND STARTERS A THINKLINK PRIMARY CLASSROOM SCENARIO THINKTRIX QUESTION GENERATOR: PRIMARY A THINKLINK INTERMEDIATE CLASSROOM SCENARIO THINKTRIX QUESTION GENERATOR: INTERMEDIATE/SECONDARY CHAPTER I: THE CHARACTER THINK LINK The Character Web Definition, Prototypes, and SamplesInstructionDemonstration and Guided Practice StageIndependent Production StageThe Character Comparison ThinkLinkDefinition and PrototypesInstructionDemonstration and Guided Practice StageIndependent Production StageSUMMARYCHAPTER II: THE EVENT THINKLINK THE EVENT-IDEA THINKLINK Definition and PrototypesInstructionTHE EVENT-CAUSEÖEFFECT THINKLINK Definition and PrototypesInstructionDemonstration and Guided Practice StageIndependent Production StageTHE EVENT-ANALOGY THINKLINK Definition and PrototypesInstructionSUMMARY CHAPTER III: THE THEME THINKLINKTHE THEME-EXAMPLE THINKLINK Definition and PrototypesInstructionTHE THEME CAUSEÖEFFECT THINKLINKDefinition and PrototypesInstructionDemonstration and Guided Practice StageIndependent Production StageSUMMARY CHAPTER IV: THE STORY THINKLINK THE STORY-EXAMPLE-IDEA THINKLINK Definition and PrototypesInstructionTHE STORY-ANALOGY THINKLINKDefinition and PrototypesInstructionSUMMARYConclusion The Kaleidoscope of Learning APPENDIXTools & CuesList of Familiar Stories List of Character Traits & Feelings List of Themes and IdeasUsing Theme CauseÖEffect Questions to Understand Literature and Life ThinkTrix Icons on Pinch Cards and WheelsQuestion Generator The ThinkLink Classroom: Response to LiteratureACTIVITESCause/Effect Essay Model Cause/Effect Essay Sample: Why Do People Fake Response to Literature ActivitiesGlossary of Terms BibliographyAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 161 Illustrations including: - 161 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-3033-5 / 1475830335
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-3033-0 / 9781475830330