Robert J. Sternberg - Teaching for Wisdom, Intelligence, Creativity, and Success

Copyright 2009 by Robert J. Sternberg, Linda Jarvin, and Elena L. Grigorenko

First Skyhorse Publishing edition 2015.

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Print ISBN: 978-1-63220-573-5

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-988-7

Contents

List of Tables

Analytical Activity From an Elementary School Lesson on the Mystery Genre

Analytical Activity From a High School Lesson Accompanying the Reading of H. G. Wellss The Island of Dr. Moreau

Analytical Activity From an Elementary School Lesson on Properties of Materials

Analytical Activity From a High School Physics Lesson on Atoms

Analytical Activity From an Elementary School Lesson on Number Sense and Place Value

Analytical Activity from a High School Lesson on the Statistical Concepts of Mean, Median, and Mode

Analytical Activity From a High School Lesson on Psychology

Analytical Activity From a Middle School Lesson on Conflict Resolution

Creative Activity From an Elementary School Lesson on the Genre of Tales

Creative Language Arts Activity From a High School Lesson on the Literary Movement of Romanticism

Creative Activity From an Elementary School Science Lesson on Sound

Creative Activity From a High School Lesson on Vectors

Creative Activity From a Mathematics Unit on Equivalent Fractions

Creative Activity From an Elementary School Math Lesson on Data Analysis and Representation

Creative Activity From a Middle School Lesson on Numbers

Creative Activity From a High School Lesson on Psychology

Creative Activity From a High School Lesson on World Cultures

Elementary School Language Arts Concepts That Lend Themselves to Instruction in the Practical Mode

Practical Activity From a Lesson Accompanying the Reading of Harper Lees To Kill A Mocking Bird

Practical Activity From an Elementary School Lesson on Ecology

Practical Activity From a High School Physics Lesson on Vectors and Scalars

Practical Activity From an Elementary School Lesson on Measurement

Practical Activity From a High School Lesson on Prime and Composite Numbers

Practical Activity From a High School Lesson on Psychology

Practical Activity From a Middle School Lesson on The Birth of the Nation

Culminating Quiz

Determining the Most Important Concepts and Skills Addressed in a Curriculum Unit: An Illustration From a Fourth Grade Science Unit on Light

Step 1: Develop Your Own Lesson Plan

A 5-Point Proficiency Scale for Items Assessing Memory Skills in Mathematics

Develop Your Own Assessment Questions

Rubric for Attributing a Score to a Language Arts Memory Assessment Item From an Elementary School Lesson on the Wonder Tales Genre

High School Physics Item Primarily Assessing Memory Skills

Elementary School Mathematics Item Primarily Assessing Memory Skills

Rubric for Rating Responses to an Elementary School Language Arts Assessment for Analytical Abilities

Rubric for Rating Elementary School Students Responses to Open-Ended Science Questions

Rubric for Rating Analytical Skills in Elementary School Students Responses to a Science Question

Rubric for Rating an Open-Ended Analytical Question From a High School Statistics Lesson

Rubric for Attributing a Score to a Language Arts Creative Assessment Item

Rubric for Rating Creative Ability on an Open-Ended Elementary School Science Creative Assessment Item

Open-Ended Assignment for Assessment of Creative Thinking in a High School Mathematics Lesson on Algebra

Rubric for a Language Arts Assessment Primarily Addressing Practical Skills

Rubric for a Middle-School Science Assessment Primarily Addressing Practical Skills

Open-Ended Assignment Primarily Tapping Into Students Practical Skills

Develop Your Own Rubric With Sample Student Responses

Four Reasons Why Schools Should Include Instruction in Wisdom-Based Thinking Skills in Their Curriculum

Reflective Thinking: Self-Monitoring Checklist for Students

Six General Guidelines for Teaching for Wisdom

Activity From Lesson on Values

Activity From the Unit How Slavery Arrived in the New World

Activity on the Use of Arguments Versus Emotions in Convincing Others

Useful Questions to Ask Yourself When You Are Trying to Solve a Dilemma

Balancing Analytical, Creative, and Practical Activities in an Elementary/Middle School Science Unit on Light

Balancing Analytical, Creative, and Practical Activities in a High School Art Unit on the Nineteenth Century Impressionist Movement

Balancing Analytical, Creative, and Practical Activities in an Elementary School Language Arts Unit on the Biography Genre

Balancing Analytical, Creative, and Practical Activities in a High School Mathematics Unit on the Properties of Exponents

Thinking Verbs

Analytical, Practical, and Creative Items From an Elementary School Homework Assignment in Mathematics on Number Sense

Analytical, Practical, and Creative Items From a High School Assessment in Psychology

Summary of Steps to Follow in Designing a Lesson Plan or Unit

Template A for Lesson Design

Template B for Lesson Design

Sample Checklist to Review Lesson or Textbook Content for Balance and Standards Met

Preface

About This Book

T his book aims to bring together some of the enduring themes and most significant work of Robert J. Sternberg and his collaborators at the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise (PACE), a center originally at Yale University and now at Tufts University. The book offers a rationale and suggestions for K12 instruction and assessment based on Sternbergs theories, and the empirical work based on these theories, to foster in students the capacity for wise, successfully intelligent, and creative learning, problem solving, and living. This book represents an overview of roughly a dozen years of collaborations with teachers in different grade levels all across the United States and abroad. We are grateful to all the collaborators we have had over the years, and dedicate this book to the teachers with whom we have worked.

The book comprises five main parts, providing (1) an introduction, (2) a guide on how to teach for successful intelligence, (3) a guide on how to assess for successful intelligence, (4) a guide on how to teach and assess for wise thinking, and, finally, (5) a synthesis to show how you can bring it all together in your classroom. In each chapter, you will find an overview of the concepts (e.g., successful intelligence, principles for sound assessment, wisdom), followed by concrete, hands-on examples of how you can implement these ideas in your classroom. Each part ends with a your turn space for you to reflect on and apply what you have just learned in that part. Yes, we will put you to work and ask you to respond to the book!