Book Cover: Teach Your Kids to Think
Santa Barbara, CA /// Maria Chesley Fisk, Ph.D. announced the release of her first book, Teach Your Kids to Think: Simple Tools You Can Use Every Day. Recognizing that today’s children need more than successful school experience to be prepared for their adult lives, this book gives parents simple, fun tools to help children develop the critical thinking skills they need. The tools focus on thinking skills in four areas of intelligence:
The main criterion by which a child's learning will be judged in this century is not how much information has been memorized, but how well he or she can apply thinking skills to the challenges they face in their work and daily lives. This book is a basic primer for developing these skills and should be in every home and classroom where people care about the future of learning.
-Joseph S. Renzulli, Ph.D., founder of Renzulli Learning Systems, winner of the 2009 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, and author of Light Up Your Child's Mind
Teach Your Kids to Think! translates current research in a way that parents can understand and immediately use. Neuroscience indicates that we have multiple intelligences-
- Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed., neurologist, teacher, and author of How Your Child Learns Best
This is a must-have book for any parent who wants to give their children important skills that will help them think for themselves—skills that will pave the way to successfully meet the challenges they will face throughout their lives.
- Myrna B. Shure, Ph.D., author of Raising a Thinking Child and Thinking Parent, Thinking Child
This book addresses the critical need to educate the whole child that is too often lost in education today. I wholeheartedly recommend it to parents, professional educators, and anyone who is interested in practical ideas about how to expand children’s abilities to function intellectually, socially, and emotionally in today’s world.
- Karen K. Wixson, Ph.D., Professor and former Dean, School of Education, University of Michigan
Author Maria Chesley Fisk, Ph.D. translates the latest research on intelligence and how we think in this book that is easily readable and usable for parents of 4- to 12-year-old kids. A short explanation of this research is followed by 46 tools divided into sections that correspond to different kinds of thinking: analytical, creative, social & emotional, and practical. The thinking puzzle, used throughout the book, represents how interrelated these thinking skills are and how they all work together to help our kids develop their multiple intelligences.
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