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Smart Thinking
A Programme for Developing Thinking Skills in 7 to 12 Year Olds
Smart Thinking helps primary school teachers to develop their pupil's capacities to become deep thinkers and independent learners. Supporting the creation of a thoughtful classroom that provides opportunities for pupil's negotiation, goal setting and decision making, this book...
Published January 12th 2009 by David Fulton Publishers
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Learning for Themselves
Pathways for Thinking and Independent Learning in the Primary Classroom
In a world of rapidly changing knowledge which requires new and transferable skills, classrooms are increasingly being viewed as places where pupils learn how to learn. In order to help pupils develop new skills, teachers must encourage them to work independently and manage...
Published January 8th 2009 by David Fulton Publishers
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Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom
Learner-centered Strategic Teaching
Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice, examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning. Including case studies...
Published March 30th 2008 by David Fulton Publishers
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Helping your Pupils to Work Cooperatively
Series: Little books of life skills
The classroom is one of the few places where pupils are regularly required to share, wait, take turns, compromise and work in pairs or groups. And when they are involved in the same project or task, not only are they expected to get along with others, but to get along well – well enough to...
Published November 28th 2007 by David Fulton Publishers
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Helping Your Pupils to Ask Questions
Series: Little books of life skills
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Asking questions has always been fundamental to making sense of the world. Unless we are able to critically question what we see, hear and read, we can’t solve problems, create solutions, make informed decisions or enact change. And in our information-laden age, it...
Published November 28th 2007 by David Fulton Publishers
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Helping your Pupils to Think for Themselves
Series: Little books of life skills
Possibly the biggest challenge teachers face in the classroom is getting their pupils to think for themselves. When children learn to think independently, they are able to take control of their own learning. What’s more, they become good at dealing with the many problems that life will inevitably...
Published November 28th 2007 by David Fulton Publishers
