1. Cheryl Lemke Metiri Group Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Clinic Sessions – Examples of Practice

2. Critical Thinking & Problem Solving TODAY What is it? Why is it important? TOMORROW How can you develop it in students, teachers, administrators, community?

3. 1 The WHAT…the WHY… ELEVATOR SPEECHES?

4. Critical Thinking …the use of those cognitive skills or strategies that increase the probability of a desirable outcome.

6. …bewildered by difficult ideas… “subjunctive tenses in English, Hamlet’ indecision, Archimedes’ principle of displacement, why it’s hotter in the summer, how slavery could have taken such a strong hold in the South.” Our most important choice is what we try to teach, not how we teach it.” - David Perkins, Harvard University

7. The Solution… Empowering re engagement of students in learning through a combination of critical thinking, multimodal learning, relevancy, student-centered learning.

8. Long Term Memory Integrative Thinking New Understanding Dual Memory Channels Based on Models of Working Memory By Myake and Shah (1999) Cued Text/Sound Memories Sights & Sounds Attention Integrative Thinking New Understanding Working Memory Text/Sounds Visuals Cued Visual Memories Balance focus on HOTS and Basics

9. Intelligence and critical thinking can be developed Intelligence Experiential Intelligence Fields Situations Contexts Reflective Intelligence Dispositions Challenges Technical Neural Intelligence Tools Techniques

10. Key Models Diane Halpern Tishman and Perkins deBono’s CoRT

11. Diane Halpern 1.What is the Goal? 4. Have You Reached Your Goal? Reflection 3. Which Thinking Skills Will Get You To Your Goal? Deductive Reasoning Argument Analysis Hypothesis Testing Uses of Probability Decision Making Problem Solving Creative Thinking Challenges 2. What is Known? Dispositions Success Yes No

12. Smart Schools (Perkins) 1. “ Theory One. ” Principles of teaching and learning. 2. Pedagogy of Understanding. Generative content. 3. The metacurriculum. HOTS, transfer, intellectual passion. 4. Distributed intelligence. Collaboration. Tools extentions. 5. Cognitive Economy. Hot cognitive economies.

13. 2 Critical Thinking in Practice… Teaching for Understanding

14. Video: http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/framewk/efp/align/efpalisu.htm

15. Critical Thinking: Grades 1-2

16. International Projects http://www.iearn.org

17. Remember your algebra teacher…

18. IMMEX Rights to publish Movie not available

19. IMMEX Online problem sets - (9) mathematics Problem sets consist of a number of cases that students solve The step-by-step decisions that each student or group makes while problem-solving are tracked in a search-path map http://immex.ucla.edu

22. WISE Web-based Integrated Science Environment How far does light go? How safe are airbags? Should you eat genetically modified food? Why are frogs showing up deformed all over the world? http://wise.berkeley.edu

23. Web-based Integrated Science Environment http://wise.berkeley.com

24. SimCalc http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/

25. SimCalc http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/software/

26. Diane Halpern 1.What is the Goal? 4. Have You Reached Your Goal? Reflection 3. Which Thinking Skills Will Get You To Your Goal? Deductive Reasoning Argument Analysis Hypothesis Testing Uses of Probability Decision Making Problem Solving Creative Thinking Challenges 2. What is Known? Dispositions Success Yes No

27. You Make the Call http://library.thinkquest.org/J001709/thinkquest_values/make_call/start.html

28. Vocabulary Words http://annesmith9h.blogspot.com/2006/10/wonder-woman-gone-country.html

29. Making Thinking Visible

30. You Decide… Has she convinced you to stop buying items produced in sweatshops? What other options might you consider to impact this situation? (Sweatshop Video) http://www.sfett.com/home.php?id=iCan2

31. Assign Intellectually Stimulating Work Relevance Beyond School Disciplined Inquiry Knowledge Construction

32. Quality of Assignments Counts Source: Improving Chicago’s Schools, Fred Newman 2001

34. Nested Approach ContentActivities Concepts: Systems Cycles Relationship Thinking Skills: Inferring Sequencing Comparing Contrasting PSing Habits of Mind: Attending Risk Taking Persistence etc Outcomes

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