Designing a School Based on the Landscape of Thinking Skills Approach

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Designing a School Based on the Landscape of Thinking Skills Approach
Design from scratch, a school that was based on this Landscape of Thinking Skills Approach. Please describe the school (let's call it the LOTS School) that you would create and argue for your design by citing research covered in this course
Introduction
First let us discuss the Multiple Intelligences Theory based on the work of Robert Gardner, as an introduction to the development and evolution of Thinking Skills approach. At first educators and teaching professionals did not pay much attention to the Multiple Intelligences Theory when it was first put forward, but now all that has changed to the point that schools have been built around the concept of Multiple...

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