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Recommended Design Features
Idea #1:
Design instruction so that on a typical day students take ownership of the content through guided activities involving reading, writing, speaking, and listening
Idea #2:
Teach students how to assess their reading
Idea #3:
Teach students how to assess their writing
Idea #4:
Teach students how to assess their speaking
Idea #5:
Teach students how to assess their listening
Idea #6:
Design tests with the improvement of student thinking in mind
Idea #7:
Make the course work intensive for the students (but not for you)
Idea #8:
Use engaged lecture—when you do lecture
Idea #9:
Require an intellectual journal (when it is relevant to your class)
Orientation (first few days)
Idea #10:
Give students a thorough orientation to the course
Idea #11:
Develop a syllabus that highlights your expectations for the students
Idea #12:
Give Students Grade Profiles
Idea #13:
Use a “student understanding” form.
Idea #14:
Explain to the students, when orienting them to the class, what will happen on a typical class day (and why)
Idea #15:
Explain the key concept of the course explicitly during the first couple of class meetings
Idea #16:
Discuss class time as a time in which the students will practice thinking (within the content) using the fundamental concepts and principles of the field
Idea #17:
Make the point that the content of the course is a SYSTEM of interconnected ideas
Idea #18:
Present yourself as a coach (who designs activities that enable students to learn)
Idea #19:
Discuss the textbook as the thinking of the author
Daily Emphases
Idea #20:
Encourage students to think about their thinking—and model how you want them to do this
Idea #21:
Encourage students to think of content as a form of thinking
Idea #22:
Relate content whenever possible to issues and problems and practical situations in the lives of the students
Idea #23:
Target common student disabilities using specific strategies for that end
Idea #24:
Use tactics that encourage active learning
Idea #25:
Routinely ask questions that probe student understanding of the content
Idea #26:
Model skilled thinking for your students.
Idea #27:
Cultivate important intellectual traits in instruction
Idea #28:
Bring intellectual standards into daily use
Idea #29:
Have students role play ideas other than their own
Idea #30:
Systematically question students using a Socratic approach
Epilogue:
Summarize the ideas in this Guide to make the whole more intelligible
The Thinker's Guide Library
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