Miniature Guide to Practical Ways for Promoting Active and Cooperative Learning, The

by Richard Paul

The Miniature Guide to Practical Ways for Promoting Active and Cooperative Learning lays out powerful strategies to immediately get students engaged in thinking critically about what they are learning. As they adopt the critical thinking strategies in this guide, students become more responsible for their learning. As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this concise resource advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across the world.

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2006

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[David Layton · Rating 3 out of 5]

The miniature guide is definitely miniature. As an instructor, I actively use and promote the Paul-Elder model of critical thinking, both for its clarity and comprehensiveness. The miniature guides (there are about 12 of them) are often quite helpful for giving my class sessions structure and goals. This particular guide is to me not as helpful as some others. Most of the ideas for classroom activities I have seen promoted repeatedly elsewhere. Therefore, the book has not much that was new to me or that I had not already tried. It is good, though, to have these suggestions gathered in one place, explained concisely.

[Scott Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a classroom teacher, I am always looking for ideas on how to get students to work together to help pull each other up to a higher level of functioning. I have liked all of these guides for the great ideas they promote and the constructive ways I have been able to adjust the ways I have the students develop their own thinking. I found this guide to be very helpful in this process.