Teaching Thinking Skills across the Middle Years

Belle Wallace currently works on a consultative basis to local education authorities and as an in-service educator for the development of problem-solving and thinking skills and in the field of gifted and very able children. Richard Bentley was until recently Principal Inspector for Worcestershire with particular responsibility for curriculum, more able pupils and middle schools. He now works as a part-time consultant.

• Chapter 1 Don’t Work Harder! Work Smarter!, Belle Wallace; Chapter 2 Getting the Wheels Turning: Putting TASC into Action, Richard Bentley, Elizabeth Johnstone; Chapter 3 Thinking Through a Literacy Project, Nigel Kent; Chapter 4 Mathematical Makeovers: Using Existing Mathematics Problems to Promote the Development of Thinking Skills, Jeanette Brocks, Melisa Bayliss, Sue Foster-Agg; Chapter 5 Using TASC to Foster the Development of Problem-solving and Thinking Skills in Science, Steve Davies, Rashu Rosso, Lucy Bell-Scott; Chapter 6 Using ICT to Support the Development of Problem-solving and Thinking Skills, Jane Finch;

'This valuable contribution opens the way to increasing children's motivation to learn through a thinking skills framework so that they may acquire tools for lifelong learning.' - Gifted Education International