Hot skills : developing higher-order thinking in young learners / Steffen Saifer, EdD.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Thinking about thinking
Types of thinking skills: the tools in our head
Lower-order thinking (lot) skills: functional...if not always fun
Middle-order thinking (mot) skills: the logical path to wisdom
Higher-order thinking (hot) skills: turning notes into music
Critical-thinking skills: more than meets the eye
Creative-thinking skills: he sky's the limit
Key thinking processes
Choose/make decisions
Solve problems
Plan/strategize
Analyze
The importance and function of hot skills; more innovation, less imitation
Learning to think, thinking to learn
Guiding principles for hot teaching and learning: rigor and joy
Hot strategies for hot teaching: serious fun
Cooperative, collaborative, and social learning
Hot themes
Projects and investigations: inquiry in action
Materials that matter
Play: from playing with props to playing with ideas
Thinking games
Case studies
Mental flossers
Role plays and sketches
Hot techniques for hot teaching: intentional and playful
Choices
Scaffolds for higher-order thinking
Cues
Modeling/demonstrating
Idioms and aphorisms
Analogies, similes, and metaphors
Hot questions: "roses and thorns"
Sparks
"Heating" an activity
Teaching reading and writing using higher-order thinking: yearning to learn
References
Index
Table of figures.