Cheryl Lemke

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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Clinic Sessions Examples of Practice

• Cheryl Lemke
• Metiri Group

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Critical Thinking Problem Solving

• TODAY
• What is it?
• Why is it important?

• TOMORROW
• How can you develop it in students, teachers,
  administrators, community?

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The WHATthe WHY
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ELEVATOR SPEECHES?
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Critical Thinking

• the use of those cognitive skills or strategies
  that increase the probability of a desirable
  outcome.

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bewildered by difficult ideas

• subjunctive tenses in English, Hamlet
  indecision, Archimedes principle of
  displacement, why its 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

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The Solution

• Empowering re engagement of students in
  learning through a combination of critical
  thinking, multimodal learning, relevancy,
  student-centered learning.

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Balance focus on HOTS and Basics

Sights Sounds
Integrative Thinking New Understanding
Integrative Thinking New Understanding
Working Memory
Attention

Dual Memory Channels Based on Models of Working
Memory By Myake and Shah (1999)
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Intelligence and critical thinking can be
developed
Neural Intelligence

• Experiential
• Intelligence
• Fields
• Situations
• Contexts

• Tools
• Techniques

Intelligence

• Reflective
• Intelligence
• Dispositions
• Challenges
• Technical

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Key Models

• Diane Halpern
• Tishman and Perkins
• deBonos CoRT

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Diane Halpern
1.What is the Goal?
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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.

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Critical Thinking in Practice
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Teaching for Understanding
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Teaching for Understanding
Video http//www.ncrel.org/engauge/framewk/efp/al
ign/efpalisu.htm
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Critical Thinking Grades 1-2
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International Projects
http//www.iearn.org
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Remember your algebra teacher
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IMMEX
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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
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WISEWeb-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
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Web-based Integrated Science Environment
http//wise.berkeley.com
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SimCalc
http//www.simcalc.umassd.edu/
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SimCalc
http//www.simcalc.umassd.edu/software/
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Diane Halpern
1.What is the Goal?
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You Make the Call
http//library.thinkquest.org/J001709/thinkquest_v
alues/make_call/start.html
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Vocabulary Words
http//annesmith9h.blogspot.com/2006/10/wonder-wom
an-gone-country.html
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Making Thinking Visible
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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?i
diCan2
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Assign Intellectually Stimulating Work

• Relevance Beyond School
• Disciplined Inquiry
• Knowledge Construction

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Quality of Assignments Counts
Source Improving Chicagos Schools, Fred Newman
2001
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Nested Approach

• Thinking Skills
• Inferring
• Sequencing
• Comparing
• Contrasting
• PSing

• Habits of Mind
• Attending
• Risk Taking
• Persistence
• etc

• Concepts
• Systems
• Cycles
• Relationship

Content
Activities
Outcomes
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