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Zandvakili, Elham; Washington, Ernest; Gordon, Edmund W.; Wells, Craig; Mangaliso, Mzamo – SAGE Open, 2019
This is a research report of teaching patterns of critical thinking using the competency-based 3CA (an acronym for the educational practices of Concept maps, Critical thinking, Collaboration, and Assessment) model of classroom instruction to change the grammar of schooling. Critical thinking is defined as the "WH questions": "what,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Concept Mapping, Cooperative Learning
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Liben, Lynn S. – Knowledge Quest, 2008
Children's cognitive skills change substantially from the time they enter school at about the age of five to when they graduate from high school a dozen years later. Some changes can be attributed to the school curriculum, but others are part of children's developmental evolution as they mature and interact with the world. Rather than reviewing…
Descriptors: Maps, Young Children, Cognitive Development, Teaching Methods
Jones, Robin – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2007
As Universal Pre-K efforts sweep the nation, so does the development of state standards that define the skills and the knowledge that young children should be developing. The goal of these standards is to ensure the school readiness of all students. While the goals mentioned in this article are taken from the New Jersey Department of Education's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, State Standards