ED4914:04
Teaching Thinking Skills
| Cairns | HECS Band 1 |
20 hours lectures, 20 hours workshops. Semester 2.
Available as an education elective to final year BEd students.
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%).