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

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.

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

By Selma Wassermann

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 > Family; 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