Indicators for Thinking Strategies Thinking Skills a.

Conceptualiza tion Indicators Produce concept Form concept Build concept

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Id entify examples or information

ii. entify common characteristics

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Identify examples Give examples Get examples State examples List examples (Cognitive List characteristics Identify common characteristics Give characteristics Get characteristics State characteristics Classify characteristics according to category Classify according to common characteristics List contrasting characteristics Categorizing characteristics Sort in groups Dividing common characteristics into small groups Find connections among characteristics Study connections among characteristics State connections among characteristics State relations among characteristics Find additional examples Find non examples Get examples State examples List examples Identify examples Form concepts Produce concepts

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iv. onsolidating to new concept

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Gi ving examples to test or modify earlier concept

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Thinking Skills b. Problem Solving

Indicators I Find solutions Solve Find ways of solution Solve questions Identify problem State problem Characterise problem List problem Explain problem Describe problem Get alternative Get other solution Finding other way Identify different way Carry out operation Carry out steps Assess solution Weigh solution Identify weightage Make choice

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ii. larify problem iii. ind alternatives problem solving

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C arry out operation E valuate problem solving

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Making Decision

Make decision Make best suggestions Choose best alternative Make Make Identify goal Give goals Get goals State goals List goals

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dentify alternatives iii. iv. v. vi. A nalise alternatives S ort Alternatives C hoose 2 best alternatives E valuate alternatives chosen M ake decision

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Compare and contrast Finding patterns Making Analogies Finding relationship Problem Solving Decision Making Evaluation The Marzano model has eight categories of skills: Knowledge : focusing, information gathering, remembering, organizing, applying 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.