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Module 1066

Teaching Students to Think: Promote Critical Thinking in the Classroom

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

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.

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