Identifying Thinking Skills

Carol Dweck's in “ Carol Dweck Revisits the ‘Growth Mindset’,” explores his passionate ways to analyse how the brain works and how to take action to do what's best for all students to thrive and flourish above and beyond the expectation. It's important to understanding the difference between fixed and growth mindsets especially the students and educators who can lead us to tremendously gratifying results. By continuing to believe and inform students their intelligence can be developed towards a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset. Also known as growing their brain, the students can succeed more in the programs and achieve higher goals than they did before with this simple information. When it come to giving students praises we quickly

According to the IB Learner Profile, thinkers take the initiative to apply critical thinking skills

Dr. Derek Cabrera’s thought on metacognition, human and education is absorbing. He shares perspectives on four universal thinking skills: Distinctions; “Systems; Relationships; and Perspectives (DSRP)” that should be taught in learning institutions. Dr. Cabrera states, “Thinking is simply a process of structuring information and doing something meaningful with it.” Dr. Cabrera also argues that people lack critical analytical thinking, great at school work, but not real life situation. Education needs to be fixed from the bottom up; that can be accomplished by teaching thinking skills.

Research shows, for example, that GED recipients perform about as well as high school graduates on standardized tests but have much worse life outcomes because they often lack important qualities such as curiosity, conscientiousness, perseverance, and sociability. ELA teachers could help more students develop these so-called “soft skills” or non-cognitive abilities if they didn’t have to focus on drills for tests. Instead, ELA teachers have to, for instance, cut back on large-scale projects that require perseverance, reduce the number of literary texts that engender the empathy necessary to sociability, and limit opportunities for developing student curiosity. Student learning that could lead in positive directions is diminished when tests prevent teachers from helping students develop the noncognitive abilities that support better life outcomes.

There are numerous misconceptions of gifted learners and also teaching gifted learners. After completion of the Distinguishing Myth quiz and scoring a 62 percent, I realized that I could distinguish the difference between a myth and a truth about a gifted student. According to the Distinguish Myth Quiz, Students who are gifted and talented should be given experiences involving a variety of appropriate acceleration-based options. Several years ago, my son as a first grader, qualified for gifted and was recommended to advance to the second grade.

In the article "The secret to Raising Smart Kids" I unaware of the complexities that came along with how to raise a child to have a passion for learning. Carol Dweck offers reasoning why students should be taught that success comes from effort, rather than how naturally brilliant or talented they are. Teaching professionals, and also parents should all become aware of the different types of praise can vastly effect a child 's mind set. Student should be welcoming towards a challenge rather than call it quits. This process of teaching students to rely more effort, and have more of a growth mind-set should become part of the teaching program, this could dramatically create a difference in the behavior of students struggle in school.

Critical thinking is a good skill to develop because it is used to fully understand a topic from multiple perspectives. One more skill that I developed was organizational skills. Organizational skills is a good skill to develop because

This exercise helped me to become more aware of the types and levels of questions that I ask my students as a teacher. It is easy to ask low level knowledge questions but those do not get student actively involved in critical thinking. The higher level divergent questions allow students to show creativity and to pull from their own base of knowledge and experiences. Divergent questions are good for getting students engaged because there is no one right answer.

Critical thinking is relevant in a few different aspects of life. For example, critical thinking can be applied to school and learning. There are people who support using different aspects of critical thinking in students curriculum. Laura Hummell said, "Critical thinking skill development is crucial in elementary schools. Students who are allowed to explore, empathize, question, hypothesize, conceptualize, experiment, and evaluate throughout their own learning become productive community members" (Hummell 5).

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The article pointed to the several researches defining critical thinking skills. If I was taught 20 years ago what I know now. I am sure I would have been more prepared with the knowledge and skills of framing my mind to the critical thinking skills. Putting the skills and knowledge and applying them to my younger life. The article describes critical thinking as many different observations of one’s worldview.

On estimate, there are 3.2 million students in public schools that are in programs designed for gifted learners (Susannah, 2010). The participation and inclusion of the gifted learners’ programs differ across the states and depends on the demographic groupings that define the learners. Over the years, education of those learners have received increased attention and recognition across the United States (Duygu & Tugba, 2017). Enrichment is a key factor in the education of gifted learners. Enrichment is the aspect of inclusion into the curriculum programs that enable gifted learners to identify, expound and make use of their special gifts and talents.

Since the spread of formal schooling and education in human societies, fostering cognitive abilities, such as understanding, reasoning, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving and judgment has been highlighted [1]. Problem-solving is an essential skill in today’s life [2]. Problem-solving is a goal-directed thinking [3]. It is a mental process, some logical, orderly, intellectual thinking that helps cope with problems, search several solutions and choose the best solution [4]. According to Moshirabadi, problem-solving is a systematic process and a problem-focused situation analysis that indicates the ability of individuals to overcome obstacles and to achieve goals.

Thematic instruction is based on the idea that people acquire knowledge best when learning in the context of a coherent “whole,” and when they can connect what they’re learning to the real world. Thematic instruction seeks to put the teaching of cognitive skills such as reading, mathematics, science, and writing in the context of a real-world subject that is both specific enough to be practical and broad enough to allow creative

Are you good at math, science, engineering, or technology? If you said yes, chances are you have mastered L-directed thinking; the more analytical skills your brain posses. However, what happens to our R-directed thinking skills? Creativity, empathy, and laughter, are all skills dominated by the right side of our brain. We live in a society dominated by L-directed thinking, but as our world changes, so does the way we think.