1st Edition

How to Teach Thinking A Practitioner’s Guide to Metacognition, Executive Function and Mediated Learning

By Ruth M. Deutsch, Jane Yeomans Copyright 2027
180 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

180 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Speechmark

How to Teach Thinking  develops a range of tools for bringing together two essential components of effective learning: knowledge (what we know) and cognitive skills (how we learn). Mediation is the way in which these cognitive skills can be taught and promoted, ensuring successful learning for everyone and particularly for those with additional learning needs. This book blends theory and... Read more

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

 

PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

 

Chapter One: What is Thinking?
Chapter Two: Theoretical Foundations: East, West and Somewhere in Between
Chapter Three: A Framework for Mediated Learning

 

PART TWO: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

 

Chapter Four: The Learner
Chapter Five: The Task
Chapter Six: The Mediator
Chapter Seven: Teaching for Transfer
Chapter Eight: Putting It All Together: Delivering Metacognitive Teaching and Mediated Learning


Appendix One: Further Information

 

Resources – Online Only

 

Index

Biography

Ruth M. Deutsch is a Chartered Educational Psychologist. She consults to organisations and schools, also teaching on doctoral programmes for EPs and on CPD courses internationally. Ruth is the author of research articles and of the Cognitive Abilities Profile. She works with learners of all ages, specialising in cognitive assessment and development.

Jane Yeomans is an independent Educational Psychologist. She is an accredited practitioner for Feuerstein's Learning Propensity Assessment Device, Instrumental Enrichment and for the Bright Start programme. Jane has taught and tutored on doctoral programmes for EPs. She has authored many papers for peer reviewed journals and is the co-author of three books about aspects of educational psychology.