"The Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms Series is a print collection of concise booklets highlighting diverse tools and approaches that K-12 educators can employ to nurture critical, creative and collaborative thinking competencies in their students. Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms: Using Thoughtbooks to sustain inquiry outlines how to effectively support sustained, iterative inquiry by using a format designed to capture ongoing reflective and prospective thinking about a problematic situation, thereby developing creative and critical thinking skills. This Quick Guide frames the pedagogical rationale for the use of Thoughtbooks in 21st century classrooms and offers a range of practical ideas for incorporating a Thoughtbook across K-12 grade levels and subject areas. Using Thoughtbooks to sustain inquiry also addresses the specific details of Thoughtbook implementation and includes practical templates that are easily adapted in diverse classroom contexts. A variety of tools and resources that support the development of critical thinking competencies are available online at www.tc2.ca."-- Provided by publisher.

"Authors: Garfield Gini-Newman and Laura Gini-Newman; Editors: Roland Case and Usha James."--Title page verso.