Ā Teaching Tips

Metacognition Tip 2. Let's Talk About It!

Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter

As we saw in Tip 1, metacognition is “above and beyond” thinking. We use metacognition when we ponder: “What is the best way to solve this problem? Am I...

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Metacognition Tip 1. Define It!

Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter

“Stop, look, and listen before you cross the street.” This is an early example of how we teach children metacognition: literally, thinking about (our) thinking....

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Persistence Tip 4. Tell Persistence Stories

Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter

I’m excited to share an instructional strategy you can use to help students to question the validity of their negative persistence stories or strengthen their positive...

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Persistence Tip 3. Nurture a Persistence Mindset

Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter 

Why do some learners have negative mindsets about their aptitude for persistence

Traumatic experiences are likely to result in wrong “cause and...

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Persistence Tip 2. Overwrite Wrong Mindsets with Right Ones

Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter

I’ve been reading a new book, Mind Your Mindsets, and discovered something about our marvelous brain: It continually seeks to make meaning from our memories and...

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Persistence Tip 1. Define it to Find It!

Dr. Jeanne L. Paynter

Recently I talked with an art teacher who lamented a student’s lack of persistence. She developed a unit on wire sculpture based on the work of a local street artist,...

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Logical Reasoning 4. How to Assess It!

So far, we’ve explored the importance of explicitly teaching the concept and attributes of logical reasoning as an aptitude that innovators use in the convergent (focused) stages of creative...

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Logical Reasoning 3. Solve it with Concept Attainment!

I'd like to share a tried-and-true instructional strategy you can use to develop learner's logical reasoning: concept attainment. This strategy enables you to “teach the content”...

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Logical Reasoning 2. Make it the Goal

Tomorrow’s innovators (our children today) must become adept at open-ended (divergent) and focused (convergent) thinking. For example, their curiosity and creativity fuel open exploration of...

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Logical Reasoning 1. What's so Logical about It?

Have you ever heard someone say, “That’s just not logical.”  (Perhaps that person was you!). What makes reasoning logical?

Logical reasoning is a type of critical thinking...

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Creativity Tip 4. Teach and Assess Creativity

I know you understand the importance of creativity as a 21st century skill for all graduates. In the past three Creativity Tips, I’ve shared ways we can develop it using the...

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Creativity Tip 3. CPS in YOUR Classroom!

We may not have the time or the discretion to implement the complete Creative Problem Solving process in our classrooms. I want to share with you three ways I have integrated CPS stages into my...

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Creativity Tip 2. What's the Real Problem?

Creativity Tip #1 introduced Creative Problem Solving (CPS) as a process to apply creative thinking in a unique and useful product, idea, or service— in other words, to innovate. The creative...

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Creativity Tip 1. Got a Problem? Get Creative!

In our homes and classrooms, children exhibit creativity when they express new or unusual ideas and connections, enjoy imagining, inventing, and divergent thinking; and they initiate new projects...

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That Healthy CURIOSITY!

Q: What capacity doesn’t diminish over our lifetime?

A: Our capacity for curiosity!

Children are naturally curious, aren’t they? Their motivation is to explore, question, and imagine....

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