ATL Skills Toolbox: Thinking Skills

This is a collection of thinking activities to complement all classroom work across the curriculum. The teaching and management strategies in this book cater for all students and provide built-in opportunities for bright students. Classroom management strategies are indicated for each activity, making it easy to implement these thinking strategies and exercises with your class.

In "How to Have Creative Ideas" Edward de Bono outlines 62
different games and exercises, using random words as a provocation to
encourage creativity and lateral thinking.

Reflective thinking is widely recognised as a critical skill in learning - and learning to learn. Increasingly, teachers are encouraging students to 'take a moment' and think about why, what and how they are learning. Trialled extensively in classrooms, this book offers a variety of practical frameworks to support student reflection.

A practical guide to various thinking activities. Includes analytical, critical, creative and caring thinking.

This resource provides practical activities to develop a range of thinking processes, including critical, creative and caring thinking. It also provides strategies for integrating different approaches, such as Bloom’s Taxonomy, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence, Krathwohl’s Taxonomy and Divergent Thinking.

In "Creating Cultures of Thinking" Richhart explains how creating a culture of thinking is more important to learning than any particular curriculum and he outlines how any school or teacher can accomplish this by leveraging 8 cultural forces: expectations, language, time, modeling, opportunities, routines, interactions, and environment.

This series of teacher resource books represents the only authorised educational adaptation of the six hats methods. This material is written and designed by the originator of the six hats method, Edward de Bono, specifically for use in education

Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is an extensive and adaptable collection of practices that include thinking routines and the documentation of student thinking. The routines are a central element of the practical, functional and accessible nature of Visible Thinking. Thinking routines are easy to use mini-strategies that are repeatedly used in the classroom.