Module 1066
Teaching Students to Think: Promote Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Apply this toward your professional development requirements
Tuition: $225 complete
What You'll Learn
Teaching students to think is an educator’s primary responsibility. But with an ever-growing emphasis on standards and “teaching to the test,” critical thinking skills are being increasingly overlooked in the classroom. The good news: research has proven that achievement increases dramatically when students are given direct critical thinking instruction. What’s more, student achievement improves when teachers are trained to teach critical thinking skills in their classrooms.
In this module you’ll gain a comprehensive overview of critical thinking and discover time-tested methods for promoting higher-level thinking in your classroom. Acclaimed instructor Dr. Bruce Campbell will examine the functions of the brain that are responsible for critical thinking, as well as outline proven techniques for boosting retention and comprehension within your students. You’ll discover how to:
Build a positive, stimulating and encouraging classroom climate
Promote higher-level thinking in your classroom
Teach for maximum understanding and comprehension
Utilize Multiple Intelligences to engage students in critical thinking
Understand the brain’s role in critical thinking
Build thinking skills in all grade levels and disciplines
Highlights
Understanding the Brain and its Role in Human Intelligence
Building the brain and "growing dendrites"
Principles of Multiple Intelligences that boost critical thinking
Action verbs that maximize student thinking, understanding and comprehension
Bloom’s Taxonomy and other models that incorporate thinking skills
Practical Techniques that will Engage Students in your Classroom
Tips for encouraging analytical, critical and evaluative thinking skills
Tapping into prior knowledge to promote critical thinking
Questions educators can ask that engage students in "big picture" thinking
Specific, actionable tools and activities you can implement in your classroom
Teaching for Understanding
Alternative assessment methods that encourage divergent thinking
Using inferences to help students make judgments and draw conclusions
Problem-solving models for any content area and grade level
Utilizing problem-based learning to engage students of all learning styles
The Virtual Teachers Lounge™
Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:
Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance - whenever you need it.
You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7
All you have to do is sign up for this course, and you're in!
Your Instructor Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., has been a classroom teacher for 35 years and his classroom is still an exemplar for differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and project and brain-based learning. Bruce is the author of numerous books and articles for educators. He serves as an associate professor of education for Antioch University Seattle, an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific and as a frequent speaker at national education conferences. He has taught teachers in all 50 states as well as in countries all around the world about how to improve instruction and how to spark a love of learning.
Materials & Assessment
Lectures
Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on
this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your
progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your
computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD.
Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park;
and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on
weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources
Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment
If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion , you do not need to
complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to
receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development
hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge
To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module . If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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Teaching Students to Think: Promote Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Tuition: $225