OVERVIEW:

The NCTT staff of consultants is headed by Dr. Robert Swartz, who directs NCTT. Dr. Swartz is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and has published extensively in the field of teaching thinking. Dr. Swartz has conducted staff-development programs on infusing critical and creative thinking into content instruction in numerous elementary, middle, and secondary schools and colleges Over the past 20 years. He has earned an international reputation as one of the leading contributors to a greater understanding of what is involved in teaching thinking and is one of the leading staff-developers in his field.

Among other experienced national consultants who have offered courses and workshops through the Center are John Barell, Patricia Benner, Art Costa, Robert Ennis, David Perkins, Ruth Loring, Lucy Cromwell, Peter Facione, Noreen Facione, Barry Beyer, Rebecca Reagan, and Donald Treffinger.

SUMMER INSTITUTE FACULTY:

BARRY BEYER, Emeritus Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Author of Teaching Thinking Skills: A Handbook for Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Thinking Skills: A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers and Improving Student Thinking: A Comprehensive Approach.

ART COSTA, Emeritus Professor of Education, Sacramento State University, and former President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Co-author of Teaching and Assessing Habits of Minds, Assessment in the Learning Organization, Cognitive Coaching, and Techniques for Teaching Thinking; editor of Developing Minds.

ROBERT ENNIS, University of Illinois, author of Critical Thinking, co-author of the Cornell Critical Thinking Test, Level X and Level Z, The Ennis-Wier Critical Thinking Essay Test, and Evaluating Critical Thinking.

RITA HAGEVIK, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Former science teacher, Ligon Middle School, Raliegh, NC. Lesson/Unit design specialist on infusing critical thinking into content instruction.

DAVID MARTIN, Emeritus Professor of Education at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. Author of numerous articles on preparation for teaching thinking. Co-Chair, Special Study Group on Critical Thinking in Teacher Education, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)

REBECCA REAGAN, Lubbock, Texas Independent School District, reading specialist and national consultant on teaching thinking, co-author of Infusion Lessons: Teaching Critical and Creative Thinking in Language Arts, Grades 5 & 6.

ROBERT SWARTZ, U. Mass./Boston, Director, The National Center for Teaching Thinking, co-author of Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches , the lesson-design handbook series for the elementary and secondary grades, Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction, and the Infusion Lessons series of nine books, Gr. 1 - 6, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science.

MARLYS MAYFIELD, Emeritus Professor, at the College of Alameda in California. Author of Thinking for Yourself as well as other articles on critical thinking.

DAVID PERKINS, Co-Director, Project Zero, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Co-author of Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches, and The Thinking Classroom, and author of The Minds Best Work, Smart Schools, and Outsmarting IQ