Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement

Rebecca Stobaugh is an assistant professor in Western Kentucky University's teacher education program, where she teaches assessment and unit planning courses. She also mentors first-year teachers and advises school systems on critical thinking, teaching tactics, assessment, technological integration, and other issues. She has worked as a middle and high school teacher as well as a middle school principal in the past.

Change the culture of your classroom from one of passive knowledge consumption to one of active learning and student participation. Author Rebecca Stobaugh explains how to create a thinking culture that promotes vital 21st-century abilities such as critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and creativity in "Fifty Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement". Use the book's Take Action exercises to help you put the student engagement methods to work in your classroom. Gain 50 teacher-tested instructional and student engagement strategies for nourishing students' cognitive growth.

For decades, we've been discussing, debating, and toying with the concept of thinking. Finally, Rebecca Stobaugh provides teachers with what we all desire for our pupils. She takes instructors step by step through practical ways for enhancing traditional classrooms or migrating to a more customized, competency-based setting, all while steadily improving levels of cognitive engagement and creative thinking. She combines tactics with an updated Bloom's taxonomy that serves as a helpful primer as well as a gentle reminder of what we should expect from kids at each level.

Author: Rebecca Stobaugh

Publisher: Solution Tree Press (April 19, 2019)
Language: English
Link to buy: amazon.com/Fifty-Strategies-Boost-Cognitive-Engagement/dp/1947604775