ED4914:04
Teaching Thinking Skills
Cairns
Inadmissable Subject Combination: PD3542
20 lectures, 20 hours workshops. Second semester.
Available as an education elective.
This subject introduces students to the direct teaching of thinking in schools. Topics covered include: student in-class thinking; critical analysis of programs and approaches for teaching thinking; thinking and assessment; ignorance; cognitive demand; infusion of thinking skills into the curriculum and current research on thinking and teaching thinking. There is a particular emphasis on research on Edward de Bono’s CoRT Thinking Skills program.
Learning Objectives:
- a critical awareness of research on student in-class thinking and the direct teaching of thinking;
- ability to design and analyse lessons and programs to teach thinking directly;
- a detailed understanding of at least one major thinking skills program.
Assessment by an essay of 2,500 words (60%); seminar presentation (40%).