The School as a Home for the Mind: Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue, 2nd Edition

Updated Edition of Bestseller!

"Art Costa has done more than anyone I can think of to advance the practical cause of more thoughtful education."
—David Perkins, Professor of Education
Harvard University

Create a culture where the process of thinking is the content of instruction!

This unique guide reflects the author's best and most recent research, theory, and practice for the teaching of thinking. Arthur L. Costa explains why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons, illustrates what the instruction of thinking looks like in the classroom, and identifies the curricular changes that can have the most positive impact. The text also examines:

1. Curriculum mapping efforts that support the teaching of thinking
2. Specific teaching behaviors that foster students' thinking processes
3. Cognitive coaching that encourages a high level of performance
4. Metacognitive mediations that connect immediate lessons to lifelong learning

About The Author:
Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento, and co-founder of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior in El Dorado Hills, California. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, an assistant superinten-dent for instruction, and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made pre-sentations and conducted workshops in all fifty states as well as Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the islands of the South Pacific. Dr. Costa has written numerous books, including Techniques for Teaching Thinking (with Larry Lowery), The School as a Home for the Mind, and Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools (with Robert Garmston). He is editor of Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, coeditor (with Rosemarie Liebmann) of the Process as Content Trilogy: Envisioning Process as Content, Supporting the Spirit of Learning, and The Process Centered School. Active in many professional organizations, he served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1988 to 1989.