Subject: 12/10/04 WSJ Article on How Schoolchildren Learn

Posted by Richard Turnock on 12/14/2004
In Reply To:12/10/04 WSJ Article on How Schoolchildren Learn Posted by Steve Kipp on 12/14/2004

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Maybe this is an example of what you guys are talking about from the Western Carolina University web site: http://www.ceap.wcu.edu/Houghton/Learner/Think94/homeNCthink94.html



Richard



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The Marzano Model for Thinking Skills
The Marzano model has eight categories of skills: focusing, information gathering, remembering, organizing, analyzing, generating, integrating, evaluating. The North Carolina curriculum team reduced the first three categories (focusing, information gathering, remembering) to a category called Knowledge. They inserted the category called applying from the Bloom model, a level that Marzano had dropped. They then used the other Marzano categories of skills so that the current set of seven thinking skill categories used by the schools of North Carolina reads: knowledge, organizing, applying , analyzing, generating, integrating, and evaluating. See the definitions of each of these seven terms.