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Course 1067

Proven Critical Thinking Strategies: Improve Comprehension and Achievement in Your Classroom

Apply this towards your professional development requirements

Tuition: $249 complete

Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org

What You'll Learn


Critical thinking is a vital component of every part of the school day. With each activity that students engage in, they are utilizing critical thinking skills – skills that must be fostered and encouraged by educators so students can perform at the highest level possible. This module will teach educators to employ various strategies and tactics that will ensure that they are continuously cultivating critical thinking skills in their students throughout the day so that student achievement is constantly being emphasized.


In this course you’ll learn how to encourage critical thinking and active learning, as well as tactical and structural recommendations to enhance your lessons, different approaches to thinking, and how to drive thinking through questions. You will discover:


  • The intrapersonal components involved in critical thinking
  • The role of critical thinking in student interactions
  • How to incorporate critical thinking strategies into every activity and lesson plan
  • The various approaches to thinking

Highlights

Strategies that Encourage Critical Thinking and Active Learning

  • 9 effective strategies that target the intrapersonal facet of learning
  • 17 "big picture" cognitive strategies that enhance interaction with the world
  • 9 "micro-skill" cognitive strategies that support individual cognition
  • 11 active learning strategies that can be implemented throughout the day

Tactical and Structural Recommendations

  • Strategies to enhance lessons throughout the day
  • Increase the amount of knowledge students can retain
  • Cultivate reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills
  • Design activities that promote critical thinking

Drive Thinking Through Questions

  • Utilize questions during lessons to generate thinking
  • Apply different approaches to thinking
  • Master the "Six Thinking Hats" and how they are used in the classroom

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.

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!

Connect with, hear from and get help from you peers.


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 To receive your Certificate of Completion or Certificate of Attendance and earn Professional Development/Continuing Education units/credits/hours, you will need to complete all assessments and submit all 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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Proven Critical Thinking Strategies: Improve Comprehension and Achievement in Your Classroom

Tuition: $249
Contact us for our quantity discount policy at questions@americancenterforeducators.org