Thinking skills instructional strategies: Teaching students with disability to be better thinkers

Abstract

Thinking is a learnable skill that has been emphasised in curricula internationally. However, there are few resources available to teach thinking skills to students with additional needs. The aim of this study was to develop a measure of thinking skills to provide teachers with an integrated system of assessment, reporting, planning, and instructional advice. This chapter describes a phase of the research in which teachers collaborated to propose and review a bank of thinking skills instructional advice for students with additional needs. Participants (n = 16) were leading teachers with experience teaching thinking skills to students with additional needs from specialist settings for school-..