Hot Skills - by Steffen Saifer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book helps teachers develop young learners' higher-order thinking skills (HOT Skills), which are key for success in school and life. Promoting higher-order thinking, and doing it effectively, has a positive impact on achievement for all learners.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of <i>Learning</i> magazine 2019 Teachers' Choice Award for the Classroom.</b> <p/>Young learners are capable of a great deal of higher-order thinking yet too many teaching and learning activities require students to use only lower-order thinking. <i>HOT Skills</i> breaks down theory into practice so you won't miss an opportunity to help young learners develop logical, critical, and creative thinking skills. <p/>Dr. Saifer provides numerous strategies for infusing play-based activities and interactions that promote higher-order thinking across all content areas and throughout the day. Just as establishing good nutrition habits early sets the foundation for a healthier life, developing basic-level HOT skills sets the foundation for a more productive and purposeful life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>HOT Skills</i>provides numerous strategies for promoting higher-order thinking across the curriculum. You can easily modify the strategies to meet varying learning abilities, styles, and intelligences." --<i>Learning</i> <p/> "Exceptionally organized and thoroughly user-friendly in presentation, <i>HOT Skills</i> is an especially recommended addition to a school district, college, and university library Teacher Education instructional resources collections." --The Midwest Book Review, The Education Shelf <p/> "In clear prose, Dr. Saifer addresses the processes by which children learn the critical, but often ignored, skills of higher-order thinking. He provides many examples of good practice, illuminating classrooms of diverse ages, cultures and teaching approaches. This inspiring book will take its proud place on the shelf with other well-thumbed resources." --Bonny Headley, Certified Pre-K CLASS Observer and assistant professor of Child Development, University of Alaska-Anchorage <p/> "Through a well-developed theoretical background and excellent practical suggestions for teachers, Dr. Saifer addresses the most important educational issue of our time, how to engage students in higher order thinking. Teachers will find this book immensely useful as they seek to prepare their students to thrive and to advance a just and democratic society." --Randy Hitz, dean emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Portland State University and past governing board member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) <p/> "Dr. Saifer has compiled an engaging guide built on research and best practice that propels teachers to use artistic license to create innovative and imaginative activities that draw the children into the realm of higher thinking." --Karen Ortiz, PhD, vice president, Early Grade Success Initiatives, Helios Education Foundation <p/> "Steffen Saifer's new book, <i>HOT Skills: Developing Higher-Order Thinking in Young Children</i>, provides clear and useful guidance for teachers on how to promote deep and creative thinking. In addition to helping teachers better support children's thinking, this book eloquently reminds us of the kind of teaching that touches the heart, engages the mind, and will ultimately produce the kind of citizens we need in our society." --Stephanie Feeney, PhD, professor emerita of education, University of Hawaii-Manoa<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Steffen Saifer, EdD, is an international consultant and writer based in Spain. His previous work includes leading the development of a national kindergarten curriculum in the Republic of Georgia for UNICEF and helping to develop and implement a master's degree program in early childhood leadership in Russia for the Open Society Foundations. Steffen has also worked in Belarus, Hungary, Bangladesh, The Gambia, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, among other countries. Earlier in his career, he was an early childhood teacher, Head Start director, a college instructor, an education specialist for Head Start programs in four Pacific Northwest states, and a director of the Child & Family Program at Education Northwest in Portland, Oregon.
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