Creating Thinking Classrooms: Leading Educational Change for This Century

by Garfield Gini-Newman, Roland Case

Reinvigorating today’s schools with quality thinking    

Critical, creative and collaborative thinking should be at the center of all 21st century teaching and learning. Creating Thinking Classrooms is loaded with examples, stories and strategies for reinvigorating schools through quality thinking and reasoning. Written for leaders who support teachers, this guide treats educational change as a process of renovation, rather than revolution, and emphasizes building upon, refining and sustaining the many good things happening in today’s schools. Practical and user-friendly, it emphasizes five key principles for learning and  
  

304 pages, Paperback

Published April 19, 2018

Reviews

[Cathy Beyers · Rating 4 out of 5]

I agree in principle with most of what the author suggests and found I was already doing quite a bit to make my students think. The book's biggest flaw is that it never considers language acquisition and the specific nature of the subject, especially in the early stages of it. There were so many good examples for every other subject area, only not for mine. Hopefully, we will get clarification on that topic when the author does his workshop.