Teach Like the Mind Learns: Instruct So Students Learn to Think, Read, and Write Critically

ISBN-13: 9781475827958 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Publication date: 02/08/2017 Pages: 184 Product dimensions: 7.35(w) x 10.36(h) x 0.66(d) This book provides the profession with across-discipline illustrations of classroom assignments that utilize and develop the mind's innate but informal gift to think critically. By applying the universal gift formally, faculty, for the first time, can lead all students to think, read, listen, write, speak, and observe critically while concurrently comprehending new and revisited subject matter. This work is for use as a textbook in teacher preparation and professional development programs. Teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, and professional developers are shown how to explicitly apply mind grammar to the design of classroom assignments. Disadvantaged, English language learners, general, and special education students will all have their innate abilities to reason critically nurtured and deve