Böcker av Arthur L. Costa

Guides readers through an understanding of how to create and sustain school cultures that value dispositional learning; ideally suited for use with Common Core implementation initiatives at school and district level.

Provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance and ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness in their own ability to make effective judgments based on all their capabilities and experiences.

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking-and the teaching of thinking-looks and sounds like.

In this greatly expanded and extensively updated edition of a widely popular resource you see how teachers' individual and collective capacities for continuing self-improvement are strengthened over time through Cognitive Coaching.

The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.