GT Process Lessons

Process lessons are a series of nine strategies designed to teach students how to think more effectively. Each of the lessons teaches a specific thinking strategy. Students are taught the name of the strategy and how it can help them become better thinkers. Each thinking strategy can be used in any curriculum area, and students are given opportunities to practice using the strategies in several content areas.

Fluency & Flexibility: The expression of many ideas and possibilities as well as the production of different ideas.

Mind Mapping: Recording information with supporting ideas and examples branching out from the main idea.

Plus, Minus, Interesting: Framing the consideration of positive, negative, and intriguing aspect of an idea into one picture.

Examining Points of Views: Analyzing how different people look at the same situation.

Originality & Elaboration: Creating new ideas and the recombining of existing ideas in a way that is new.

Visualization: Consciously forming mental images of something that is not actually present in the senses.

Encapsulating: Stating ideas in precise and concise form.

Decisions & Outcomes: Understanding that choosing from alternatives affects events which follow

Analogy: Comparing two items in order to perceive similarities.

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