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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Stobaugh, Rebecca, author.
Title: Fifty strategies to boost cognitive engagement : creating a thinking culture in the classroom / Rebecca Stobaugh.
Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045176 | ISBN 9781947604773 (perfect bound)
Subjects: LCSH: Critical thinking--Study and teaching. | Problem solving--Study and teaching. | Cognitive learning.
Classification: LCC LB1590.3 .S785 2019 | DDC 370.152--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045176
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This book is dedicated to my children. May they always challenge themselves to reach their full potential.
Acknowledgments
A special thanks to Rebecca Fields and Laura Beavers who suggested classroom examples and recommended several of the strategies I profiled, and to Marge Maxwell who provided insightful feedback.
Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:
Terry Byfield
Business Teacher
Indian Hills Middle School
Prairie Village, Kansas
Melissa Cartwright
Seventh/Eighth-Grade Teacher
Helper Middle School
Helper, Utah
Teresa Dobler
Science Teacher
Washington Latin Public Charter School
Washington, DC
Tami Ewell
Language Arts Teacher
Copper Mountain Middle School
Herriman, Utah
Jodi Hebert
First Grade Teacher
D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy
Wilmington, North Carolina
Sean Maloney
Fourth-Grade Teacher
Brooklyn Elementary School
Brooklyn, Connecticut
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Table of Contents
Policy and Assessment Systems Changes
1 Understanding Cognitive Engagement and the Thinking-Based Classroom
2 Applying a Taxonomy to the Thinking in Your Classroom
Thinking at the Remember Level
Thinking at the Understand Level
Thinking at the Evaluate Level