Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking

by Arthur L. Costa (Editor)

A substantial update of the popular resource for the thinking skills movement offers new approaches to create schools and classrooms that truly challenge students to use their intelligence.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, School, Teaching

592 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Arthur L. Costa is professor emeritus of education at California State University, Sacramento. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and assistant superintendent for instruction, and the direction of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Reviews

[Luca · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about thinking and about schools.
What is this high level thinking everybody always talks about? How can we teach it? How can we recognize it?

This book is a collection of articles, you will read short and well-written articles from many different experts.
I found this book very useful because the articles are very short and full of useful schemes and step-by-step guides that are clear and ready-to-use.
Not everything is up to date and useful, but It is impossible to not acquire new knowledge by reading this book.

Recommended to anyone who is interested in critical, divergent, lateral or high-level thinking and wants to use it in his or her classes.

[CEHD at the U of M]

David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson, contributors.