10 Routines to Build Students’ Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had routines to build students’ thinking skills and habits of mind and not just routines to build their fluency and content knowledge? The ten activities here are (mostly!) super light-weight routines that can be woven into most activities to build students’ critical thinking skills without taking time away from the content you have to cover. Some are as simple as asking students follow up questions like, “Why do you think that?” Some are more complicated routines, like those teaching students how to ask good questions. Each however builds students’ conceptual understanding.