Key Thinking Skills from Classroom Instruction That Works (2001) by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock

• Maintaining focus and attention
  
• having the ability to locate and prioritize recources
• making distinctions in relevance, similarity, order, and difference
• being able and willing to ask for help
• reading and summarizing context
• being able to speak, draw, or build non-linguistic representations
• setting goals and using feedback
• having self-awareness of personal health and nutrition
• generating and testing hypotheses
• developing working memory capacity
• being able to organize or map out ideas and info
• showing persistence and follow-through in the face of adversity