Publications for Teaching Higher-Order Thinking
New Book:
3-D ED Teach All Kids to Think (Science) . . . and Nail the Standards
by Patrick J. Leighton, EdD
A 300-page core is surrounded by in-depth chapters for mentors and leaders and other chapters that develop a science of (science) education. Its core take teachers from theory to practice to community. It is a complete guide for implementing a three-dimensional model of curriculum, teaching, and learning focused on teaching kids higher-order thinking as espoused by the Next Generation Science Standards.
INTRODUCTION, including the table of content in brief and assembled for different readers.
Extracted from the complete book, these 12 chapters and eight appendices take classroom teachers from theory to practice. After explaining the shape and mechanics of the 3-D curriculum model, dedicated chapters emphasize the practical consequences and opportunities for curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Numerous anecdotes taken from across the grade levels provide insight to how the changes may roll out in a real classroom. (Includes all appendices. Available for download only.
The five chapters added to the 3-D Core expand individual classroom practice into community, beginning with a more subtle and complex understanding of the 3-D paradigm as would be useful for mentors helping colleagues. The last two additional chapters describe the Curriculum Library tool and Curriculum Cooperative platform designed to make 3-D teaching and learning more productive and satisfying for both teacher and student.
Five of the Core’s chapters are replaced with five others that plumb the depths of cognitive psychology and learning theory to assemble a comprehensive model for teaching and learning higher-order thinking, using science as its example. Readers are challenged to solve the mystery of what technology such a bona fide science would be able to deliver.
CLASSROOM WALL POSTERS:
Concepts are simple, so display them on your classroom walls. Concepts are generic, so point to them over and over, no matter the question. Concepts are eternal - they are safe harbors for your kids’ wandering curiosity, so put the maps on your walls. Before you know it, they won’t need to look.
LESSONS, UNITS, COURSES ready for the science classroom.
Barley presently offers science teachers over 2000 lessons and units through an online database operated by The Curriculum Cooperative (CCoop: See-See-Co-op). Its members are creative teachers who share their lessons with each other and, as a community, sell individual lessons or site licenses to the CCoop’s master database to other teachers and schools. Members also provide their expertise to colleagues as online mentors helping implement 3-D curriculum, teaching, and learning.