Teaching Creative and Critical Thinking

ForewordbyDrew Bogner, PhD: President of Molloy College
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Author’s Philosophy
Chapter 1: Learning-through-Play
Overview
Explaining and Defining Creativity
Creative Cognition and Meta-cognition
Two Processes of Creativity: Linear and Reciprocal
Advantages of IM and IBR for Academics and Socialization
IM or IBR as Learning Centers + Alternative Means of Assessment
Reciprocal Thinking Phases
Connecting Creative Cognition to Constructing and Playing IBR Pages
Effects and Affects of IM and IBR
Chapter 2: The IM and IBR with Four Interactive Resources
Introduction: Louis Laupheimer
Overview
Project and Performance-based Instruction:
Flip-Chute: Uses, Materials, Construction Directions
Pic-A-Dot: Uses, Materials, Construction Directions
Wrap-Around: Uses, Materials, Construction Directions
Electro-Board: Uses, Materials, Construction Directions
Templates for Four Interactive Resources
A Narrative: IM, A Learning Center, and the IBR: Amanda Lockwood
Section Two Summary
Chapter 3: Playing-the-Pages Activities: Overview
Interactive Activities to Make and/or Play
Reciprocal Thinking Skills for 15 Activities: A Narrative: M. Schiering
Learning Standards for 23 (A-W) of the Section Three Activities: Nicole Diblasio
Addendum to Section Three Activities: Kicking it up a Notch: Joshua Schiering
Chapter 4: IM AND IBR: Summing-up the Method and Strategy:
Overview
Creative Cognition’s IBR: Leadership Building
Step-by-Step Directions: Literature
Step-by-Step Directions: Thematic Unit of Study
Overall IBR Important Message
The Gruffolo: A 1^st Grade IBR: Elizabeth Struzzieri
Intertwining Creativity and Innovation for Classroom Success:
The IM and IBR as Inspiration: Dr. Laura Shea Doolan
IBR and IM Within and Beyond the College Classroom
Author’s Closing Statements

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