Opening Minds - A Parents'' Guide to Teaching for Thinking At Home

When schools, libraries, daycares, and playgrounds closed during the pandemic, children were forced to spend a lot of time at home. These closures left parents responsible for providing educational opportunities for their children to ensure they did not fall behind academically. Today, even with schools and other centers of learning reopened, it is clear that online, in-home learning is here to stay.

Opening Minds is a wonderful resource full of materials for parents of elementary and middle school children who want to expand their learning at home. Though it is not intended to replace or be a substitute for the standard curriculum of the grades, it provides parents with a variety of tools to promote and engage children's thinking across various curriculum areas - critical thinking that can serve children at any grade level and give them a leg up to deal with whatever they will face.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Opening Minds: What's the Big Idea?
2. Getting Started
3. Thinking Operations: Those Higher Order Mental Tasks That Engage Minds
4. Introduction to the Thinking Activities: More Than You Wanted to Know
5. Preparing
6. Thinking Activities for Pre-and Emerging Readers
7. Thinking Activities for Middle Grade Students
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Selma Wassermann is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Author of more than 30 books, she is the recipient of the University Excellence in Teaching Award.

Summary

Opening Minds is a wonderful resource full of materials for parents of elementary and middle school children who want to expand their learning at home. Though not a replacement for the standard curriculum of the grades, it provides parents with a variety of tools to promote and engage children’s thinking outside the classroom.

Product details

• Authors: Selma Wassermann, Wassermann Selma
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2023
• EAN: 9781538191170
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9117-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Parent Participation, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education, Advice on parenting, Home Schooling, Parenting: advice and issues, Primary & middle schools, Designed for home learning, For home learning / Self-study / autonomous learning, Educational: General studies / study skills general, Primary and middle schools, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Educational: Study skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / General