How to Improve Student Learning : 30 Practical Ideas Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Principles

This handbook teaches students to read for deep understanding, properly analyze and assess what they read, and reason within the logic of an author.  As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this guide includes activities for students to work through in developing close reading skills using the tools of critical thinking.

Pre-order now for June 1 sales release.Critical thinking pioneer Richard Paul and educational psychologist Linda Elder draw upon decades of experience to lay out thirty methods for improving student comprehension and engagement in any area of study. Teachers and faculty at all levels will find these strategies easy to integrate into the teaching and learning process, and, when integrated, will see students begin to take ownership of their learning.This guide builds on The Thinker''s Guide to Active and Cooperative Learning and cultivates student development as encouraged in the Thinker''s Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn a Discipline.As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues across every field of study across world.