Cambridge International AS & A Level Thinking Skills Cambridge Elevate Teacher's Resource Access Card

Cambridge International AS & A Level Thinking Skills Cambridge Elevate Teacher's Resource Access Card

Author/s: Ruth Matthews

This series helps students and teachers following the Cambridge AS & A Level Thinking Skills syllabus (9694) for examination from 2020.

Not sure where to start with teaching a skills-based course?

With lesson ideas, worksheets and a scheme of work, this Cambridge Elevate teacher’s resource helps you save time planning and preparing lessons.

As well as helping you to teach thinking skills with confidence, the digital resource also includes answers to the coursebook questions for quick and easy marking.

This card gives you access to your digital teacher's resource on the Cambridge Elevate platform.

Features:

• Personalise Cambridge Elevate editions to your needs – set homework, link to the web and share annotations with your class.
• Exam-style questions throughout to give students opportunities to practise their skills and build confidence with Cambridge AS & A Level Thinking Skills.
• Published by the experts that brought you other skills-based syllabuses – Global Perspectives and English General Paper.
• Example activities with commentary show how to approach questions and help students to understand critical thinking and problem solving concepts.
• Two clear parts – critical thinking and problem solving – make it easy to co-teach.
• Cambridge Elevate is simple to navigate for both students and teachers – find notes quickly with highlights and bookmarks.
• Simple and easy to use, link directly into Cambridge Elevate from Moodle, Blackboard and any other VLE.
• Access a library of Cambridge books anywhere, anytime whether online or offline (via the app).

Contents:

How to Use This Resource
Resource Index
Introduction
Scheme of Work

Section 1: Problem Solving

1. What do we mean by a 'problem'?
2. Selecting and using information
3. Processing data
4. Working with models
5. Solving problems by searching
6. Finding methods of solution
7. Trends in data
8. Transforming data
9. Summarised Data
10. Identifying features of a model
11. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
12. Changing the scenario of a problem

Section 2: Critical Thinking

1. An introduction to critical thinking
2. Claims, statements, and assertions
3. Assessing claims
4. Grounds, reasons, and evidence
5. Evaluating evidence: a case study
6. Statistical evidence
7. Uses of evidence: inference and explanation
8. Identifying argument
9. Analysing argument
10. Interpretation
11. Assumptions
12. Evaluating argument
13. Applying logic
14. Longer texts
15. Multiple sources

Answers
Acknowledgements.