National+Thinking+Standards


 * National Standards for Thinking Skills**

STANDARD: Distinction making: **//Learns to make distinctions by identifying what is and is not included in an idea.//**

STANDARD: Organizing systems: **//Learns to think in systems by organizing parts and wholes.//**

STANDARD: Recognizing relationships: **//Learns to think about interrelationships between and amo////ng things.//**

STANDARD: Takes Perspectives: //**Learns to take different points-of-view and see new perspectives.**//

STANDARD: Integration of Patterns of Thinking: **//Creates, understands, and changes concepts by integrating the Patterns of Thinking//** (by combining the traits listed above).

STANDARD: Application of Patterns of Thinking: **//Differentiates between content and structural context when constructing the meaning of any idea.//**