just as the distinction between teaching for thinking,
teaching of thinking, and teaching about thinking is useft.il
in elementary and secondary education, it is also useful in
teacher education, Many programs for many years have
(aken seriously the mission of preparing teachers to teach fir
thinking in terms of emphasizing the incorporation of challenging
questions and certain kinds of special activities
within the social studies and science curricula, among others,
However, preparation of teachers to teach thinking as an
overt part of the curriculum or to teach students to explicitly
focus on their own mental processes (teaching (??f thinking
and teaching about thinking, respectively), has not been a
regular part of the teacher preparation curriculum, In addition,
the preparation of teachers to involve specific thinking
skills programs within their curnculum has also not been a
part of the preservice program