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Media Center Holdings- with Call Number and Librarian Notes
01 Apr 2011 12:44 PM
Monarch Media Center
Title Author
Call Number
Resource Type: Books
**Tasks of Problem Solving : Elementary
Benefits
* Designed for students with impairments in language and problem-solving skills
* Builds skills in: expressive language semantics vocabulary
* Boosts skills in critical thinking and problem solving as students learn to think and express their ideas and
reason in these tasks:
o General information : students answer various wh- and how questions, a fundamental skill that leads to
higher-level problem
solving
o Identifying problems : students practice differentiating problems from non-problem situations and
restating the problems in their
own words
o Justifying opinions : students practice both forming personal opinions and explaining the rationale for their
opinions
o Generalization skills : students bring the individual skills together to answer a variety of questions about a
single issue or situation
* Tasks are arranged in a general order of complexity and address the subskills necessary to take your
students to higher-level problem
solving
* Tasks incorporate test-taking strategies, comprehension activities, and classroom decision-making skills
* Improves metacognitive skills by teaching students the vocabulary and language to describe how they are
thinking
* Allows you to vary the way your students respond (oral vs. written) to match their skill levels
* Grade levels are not attached to any section or task because all students need to master the target skills at
their own pace
Features
Bowers, Linda. / Huisingh, Rosemary. /
514 .391 BOW
* Tasks address these specific skill areas:
o General Information : teaches students how to listen/identify the salient information in a statement to
answer a question
o Identifying Problems : instructs students to become excellent observers of their surroundings and to
identify/express what is or is
not a problem
o Determining Causes : helps students think through a situation and figure out how or why something
happened
o Sequencing : gives students the skills to organize objects and ideas quickly and logically
o Negative Questions : teaches students to notice and consider the negative marker in questions, which is
a more difficult question
answering task
o Predicting : teaches students to make a logical guess about what will happen next in predictable and
diverse situations
o Making Inferences : helps students learn to think about everything they know from their past experiences
and personal knowledge
to formulate an inference
o Problem Solving : takes students through nine logical steps to solve problems:
+ understand the problem
+ sequence the problem
+ determine the cause of the problem
+ make inferences based on what you know
+ brainstorm solutions
+ predict the best outcome
+ choose the best solution
+ plan the solution
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