GT+Weekly+Teaching+Strategy+High+Level+Thinking+Skills

= GT Weekly Teaching Strategy: High Level Thinking Skills = = =  HIGH-LEVEL THINKING SKILLS // Incorporate high-level thinking skills into the curriculum to enable students to understand, internalize, and apply information. // __Synthesis of Thinking Skills__ (Kingore, 2004) CLASSIFICATION COMPARATIVE REASONING INQUIRY INFERENCE SYNTHESIS EVALUATIVE REASONING __ Ideas for using thinking skills  __
 * Analyze attributes or characteristics
 * Categorize
 * Identify ambiguity
 * Differentiate similarities and differences
 * Distinguish reality and fantasy or fact and fiction
 * Determine sequence
 * Determine cause and effect
 * Identify patterns
 * Develop analogies
 * Distinguish point of view
 * Formulate questions
 * Pose unknowns
 * Hypothesize
 * Predict
 * Assume
 * Conclude
 * Generalize
 * Think deductively
 * Think inductively
 * Determine relevancy
 * Substantiate
 * Establish and apply judgmental criteria
 * Rank or prioritize
 * Interpret
 * Focus on 1 or 2 thinking skills you don’t regularly use and incorporate them into lesson and curriculum planning
 * Use thinking skills as prompts for brainstorming sessions
 * Use thinking skills to generate assessment questions
 * Students use thinking skills to generate questions
 * Students use thinking skills as a checklist to prompt inquiry
 * Students incorporate thinking skills into a demonstration or center they prepare
 * Students use thinking skills to guide group discussions and teamwork