Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learners’ Classroom

Developing Thinking Skills in the Young learners Classroom by Herbert PuchtaLooking into a classroomChristopher isn t easy to teach. He fi nds it very diffi cult to focus his attention for more than a few minutes. Even when he s enthusiastic about something, he loses interest in it as soon as he is supposed to tackle a task that is only slightly more challenging than he can easily cope with. We are not talking diffi cult tasks at all it s just that he seems to want to avoid failure, and therefore quickly loses interest in whatever he is supposed to be doing. In consequence, he doesn t achieve the results he would like to achieve, and he gets frustrated. He s also quite impulsive he reacts without Thinking , especially when he s annoyed with one of his classmates.

If you are a teacher of young learners, then you’ve most probably come across children like Christopher and Sophia. And you may have wondered what it is that makes them so different from one another. An easy explanation would be that Sophia’s just much smarter than Christopher, and hence achieves better results. In consequence, she

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