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Improving thinking in the classroom does not have to be difficult. This book, Improving Thinking in the Classroom, Second Edition, provides teachers with useful and practical strategies that will enable them to provide all their children with the most engaging, exciting and challenging learning environment. Teachers can achieve this most noble goal by: building depth and rigour using Bloom's taxonomy engaging students with multiple intelligences transferring the knowledge to the real world. Engagement, depth and rigour are essential characteristics of a curriculum that will motivate and interest students. This means challenging, meaningful and relevant activities that make the classroom an active centre of learning.

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Ralph Pirozzo, founder and managing director of Promoting Learning International, has worked for 25 years to develop a planning matrix that incorporates educational theories and research into a practical learning and thinking tool. Having formerly worked as a secondary science teacher in Canada and Australia, Ralph is a well-known author on subjects such as improving thinking, cooperative learning, differentiation and building a Culture of Higher Order Thinking. Since 1997, more than 45000 teachers have attended his workshops and Ralph has provided professional development programs to over 1000 schools, colleges and universities in Australia, China, New Zealand, Singapore and the UK. He has received multiple honours and awards for his work as an educator and now devotes his time writing articles, units and books aimed at supporting primary and secondary teachers to unlock & maximise their students' learning potential.

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