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Topic:  "A Thinking Curriculum"

Objective:

Students will define learning-centered schools as schools where a thinking curriculum is valued over a traditional basic skills curriculum.  Students will seek out classrooms in their local schools for model lessons that demonstrate collaborative learning and higher order thinking.

Accomplished Practice #4:  Critical Thinking

Survey:  This survey is a self-inventory for teachers in the classroom.  If you are a pre-service                 teacher, please complete the survey as a preview of good classroom practice.               Survey to Assess Critical Thinking Skills

Audio:    The Schools We Need (Merrow Audio)                Go to the WebBoard and complete the weekly media reaction writing

Internet Links:  Go to the Internet and visit the links provided by the Center for Critical Thinking  - Teacher Resources.

Lessons: Activate the 9-12 Remodeled Lesson Plans link and analyze the strategies.  Look at Standard Approaches and Strategies Used to Remodel for the seven (7) lesson plans there.  Choose two lesson plans to do the following analysis:

Horizontally fold a piece of binder paper in half.  Label one column BEFORE and the other AFTER.  Note what remodeled critical thinking strategies have replaced the standard approaches in the lesson plan.  List the standard approaches under the BEFORE heading and the critical thinking approaches that replace them in the AFTER column.

You are to use the information that you collect above by choosing ONE of the following assignments:

Find a classroom teacher who is using a critical thinking strategy that appears on your AFTER list.  Send your written observation of this teacher's lesson.

OR

Write an original lesson plan using one or more of the strategies in the AFTER column.

OR

Choose a lesson plan on the Internet and rewrite it following the remodeling procedures in the 9-12 Remodeled Lesson Plans link.

E-mail your work:  jhoneych@fgcu.edu

Evaluation: Save your work for possible inclusion in your portfolio.

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