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Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing Course
A three-year course in which students learn the skills for successfully
completing expository writing assignments.
Intelligent Learning: Thinking & Writing was designed for, and field-tested with, junior high school students. It has been particularly successful with students who lack the skills, the confidence, or (as is so often the case with accelerated learners) the patience necessary to think through and complete problems and assignments, and for students who block when asked to write. The flexibility and general applicability of the program has been demonstrated in teaching contexts ranging from remedial to gifted. Workable suggestions for remedial and general use with adaptations for use with the gifted are included.
The program accomplishes the following:
- Students learn the thinking skills and strategies used by competent writers, problem solvers, and readers.
- Students learn how to use the parallels between the process of problem solving and of writing.
- Students become aware of and learn to monitor and control each stage in the thinking/writing process.
- Students learn the differences between private and public writing and how to use each effectively.
- Students learn to respect their own and others’ learning styles and how to use each others’ strengths.
- Students evaluate their own initial strengths in problem solving and writing and learn how to apply the strategies they use in those areas to their less comfortable areas.
The total program is divided into three Teacher’s Guides and three Student Books to be used in the same way. In both the teacher’s and the student’s texts, Book One deals primarily with problem solving and leads into writing. Book Two continues the work in writing. Book Three focuses on more sophisticated thinking skills and helps students take a significant step forward in their writing.
Teacher Guides for each book give abundant teacher support. The Guides include the key instructional elements and suggested teaching strategies for each activity. In addition, the purpose and sequence is made clear through unit overviews, chapter introductions and chapter summaries.
The student texts support the students by providing direct instruction of thinking/writing skills and strategies and assignments for practice.
Teachers are continually looking for ways to be more successful in their teaching. Intelligent Learning was written to provide a bridge between current learning theory and actual practice. In addition, teachers need to have a curriculum that is not only carefully structured, fully described but also one which allows for a lot of flexibility and teacher adaptation. The authors have provided that and urge teachers to use Intelligent Learning materials as springboards for their own ideas.
A three-year course in which students learn the skills for successfully
completing expository writing assignments.
Intelligent Learning: Thinking & Writing was designed for, and field-tested with, junior high school students. It has been particularly successful with students who lack the skills, the confidence, or (as is so often the case with accelerated learners) the patience necessary to think through and complete problems and assignments, and for students who block when asked to write. The flexibility and general applicability of the program has been demonstrated in teaching contexts ranging from remedial to gifted. Workable suggestions for remedial and general use with adaptations for use with the gifted are included.
The program accomplishes the following:
- Students learn the thinking skills and strategies used by competent writers, problem solvers, and readers.
- Students learn how to use the parallels between the process of problem solving and of writing.
- Students become aware of and learn to monitor and control each stage in the thinking/writing process.
- Students learn the differences between private and public writing and how to use each effectively.
- Students learn to respect their own and others’ learning styles and how to use each others’ strengths.
- Students evaluate their own initial strengths in problem solving and writing and learn how to apply the strategies they use in those areas to their less comfortable areas.
The total program is divided into three Teacher’s Guides and three Student Books to be used in the same way. In both the teacher’s and the student’s texts, Book One deals primarily with problem solving and leads into writing. Book Two continues the work in writing. Book Three focuses on more sophisticated thinking skills and helps students take a significant step forward in their writing.
Teacher Guides for each book give abundant teacher support. The Guides include the key instructional elements and suggested teaching strategies for each activity. In addition, the purpose and sequence is made clear through unit overviews, chapter introductions and chapter summaries.
The student texts support the students by providing direct instruction of thinking/writing skills and strategies and assignments for practice.
Teachers are continually looking for ways to be more successful in their teaching. Intelligent Learning was written to provide a bridge between current learning theory and actual practice. In addition, teachers need to have a curriculum that is not only carefully structured, fully described but also one which allows for a lot of flexibility and teacher adaptation. The authors have provided that and urge teachers to use Intelligent Learning materials as springboards for their own ideas.
Books in this series:
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing. Book 1
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Subjects:
- Learning Skills; English Language Arts; Thinking Skills; Writing
- Age:
- 12, 13
- Grade:
- 7
- Order code:
- 0203
- Price:
- $7.00
In Book One students are taught a process for solving concrete problems, which includes the recursive stages of planning, doing, and reviewing. And they learn strategies under the categories of carefulness and flexibility that apply to each stage of the process. As they master the problem solving process, students develop thinking skills and strategies that they can apply usefully to the writing process. The work explicitly foreshadows the coming work they will do with writing.
In Book One students are taught a process for solving concrete problems, which includes the recursive stages of planning, doing, and reviewing. And they learn strategies under the categories of carefulness and flexibility that apply to each stage of the process. As they master the problem solving process, students develop thinking skills and strategies that they can apply usefully to the writing process. The work explicitly foreshadows the coming work they will do with writing.
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing. Book 1 Instructor
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Age:
- 12, 13
- Grade:
- 7
- Order code:
- 0211
- Price:
- $10.00
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing. Book 2
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Subjects:
- Learning Skills; English Language Arts; Thinking Skills; Writing
- Age:
- 13, 14
- Grade:
- 8
- Order code:
- 022X
- Price:
- $7.00
In Book Two students transfer the process and strategies they learned in the context of problem solving to writing. They are able to apply the same terminology and approaches to writing assignments. In addition they learn specific skills needed for successful expository writing-how to organize and write coherent paragraphs; how to use details to provide accuracy and completeness, and to use vivid descriptions.
In Book Two students transfer the process and strategies they learned in the context of problem solving to writing. They are able to apply the same terminology and approaches to writing assignments. In addition they learn specific skills needed for successful expository writing-how to organize and write coherent paragraphs; how to use details to provide accuracy and completeness, and to use vivid descriptions.
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing. Book 2 Instructor
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Age:
- 13, 14
- Grade:
- 8
- Order code:
- 0238
- Price:
- $10.00
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing. Book 3
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Subjects:
- Learning Skills; English Language Arts; Thinking Skills; Writing
- Age:
- 14, 15
- Grade:
- 9
- Order code:
- 0246
- Price:
- $7.00
In Book Three students learn more sophisticated thinking skills and strategies needed to write more complex essays. They learn how to ask effective questions, to formulate, test and refine theories, to spot inconsistencies in their reading and to avoid inconsistencies when they write. They expand their own capacity to understand an issue and to incorporate the ideas of others into their thinking. And they learn techniques for gathering and using data. The two final writing assignments call for outside research; they ask students to formulate opinions and theories, to test them by using new information, and to express and support their conclusions.
In Book Three students learn more sophisticated thinking skills and strategies needed to write more complex essays. They learn how to ask effective questions, to formulate, test and refine theories, to spot inconsistencies in their reading and to avoid inconsistencies when they write. They expand their own capacity to understand an issue and to incorporate the ideas of others into their thinking. And they learn techniques for gathering and using data. The two final writing assignments call for outside research; they ask students to formulate opinions and theories, to test them by using new information, and to express and support their conclusions.
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing. Book 3 Instructor
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Age:
- 14, 15
- Grade:
- 9
- Order code:
- 0254
- Price:
- $10.00
Intelligent Learning: Thinking and Writing Complete Three Year Course
- Author:
- Waters, Faith; MacMullen, Margaret; Glade, John
- Age:
- 12, 13, 14, 15
- Grade:
- 7, 8, 9
- Order code:
- 210S
- Price:
- $40.00
All six books
