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Susan Wilks's Designing a Thinking Curriculum PDF

By Susan Wilks

ISBN-10: 0864315481

ISBN-13: 9780864315489

Responds to the problem of disengagement within the center years of education, through supplying academics and directors with principles for the implementation of a considering curriculum of their faculties.

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The more dependent the students became as a result of experiencing ‘closed’ classroom systems—developing recitation patterns of teacher/ student/ teacher/ student, closed questions, lower-order cognitive activities, and overreliance on textbook information—the more resistant they were to taking the opportunity to acquire new skills when the occasion arose. When teachers tried to change the status quo, they often found the resistance too difficult to penetrate. Having been unsuccessful in bringing about the change he felt was required to turn schools into thoughtful places, Brown established a Charter School based on the following philosophy: The future belongs to young people who know how to create and participate in learning communities; who know where knowledge is, how to get it, how to think about it and how to use it.

The skills developed in the philosophical inquiry approach are not discipline specific. It supports the emphasis in current curriculum documents on inquiry learning and the development of the individual in a democratic and pluralistic society. If educators accept the theory that young children construct hypotheses to explain their view of the world, then they need to provide students with time and space to reason and think things through for themselves. Lipman’s emphasis on class discussion is based on the assumption that discussion skills formed the foundation of thinking skills.

In order to take on the role of a thinking coach, teachers need to: i. Make the development of thinking an explicit aim of a classroom Both as a reminder for yourself and for the students, there needs to be an explicit statement that your classroom is designed to develop the thinking of students. This needs to be discussed with students regularly. The students must know that the purpose of the class is to develop their thinking. Creating a thinking school 35 DATC-03-Chapter 3 5/1/06 9:59 AM Page 36 ii.

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