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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking skills for you inspection
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Dividers for Notebook
Table of Contents
(Dividers for each section.)
Checklist to review for each week
Introduction
Syllabus
INTASC Standards
Assessment
Learning Style Tests
Lesson Plans and Self-critiques (DLLs)
Observations
Personal
Problem Solving
Questions
Research
Resume and Philosophy
Socratic Dialogues
Strategies and Handbook
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Amibile Team
-She has 35 years of experience of teaching and business
-divergent thinking has 4 main characteristics: " The characteristics were fluency (the ability to rapidly produce a large number of ideas or solutions to a problem); flexibility (the capacity to consider a variety of approaches to a problem simultaneously); originality (the tendency to produce ideas different from those of most other people); and elaboration (the ability to think through the details of an idea and carry it out)."
-we still have had a hard time more websites because they all seem to be repeating the same things
-none of us seem to really know what we are looking for and what we are going to be doing to help us really look for websites.
Our Plato is Fullo Team
OUR PLATO IS FULLO: QUESTIONING
It was Albert Einstein who said, "The important thing is to not stop questioning".
We are taking a turn from the William & Mary Model of Critical Thinking for Gifted Learners and instead focusing on Models of Questioning. The following resource provides three models of questioning, including a look at Bloom's Taxonomy. These three models are deep enough to provide some nice insights into various structures for higher order thinking and deeper questioning for various subjects.
http://205.213.162.11/traits_dpi/6Traits_WI_DPI/Documents%20For%20Training/Models%20of%20Questioning.doc
This listing provides a variety of visual interpretations of Bloom's Taxonomy
We will continue to discuss our renewed focus on Questioning, and next week should be able to use our time to align our goals for the lesson.
web site that shows the visual activities?
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Questioning+Model&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Three Finger Ante
Three Level Model of Creative Learning – Treffinger
http://cpsb.com/research/articles/creative-problem-solving/Curr-Planning-CPS.html
creativity in business and it has a comparison between traditional education and creative education
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4052/is_200401/ai_n9369133/
brief overview of Treffinger Model of Creativity
http://repository.nie.edu.sg/jspui/bitstream/10497/3498/7/SCTT2-8a.pdf
this has blocks and obstacles as well as characteristics
Renzulli Model is linked to Treffinger.
More to come on this model, including a test for creative, GT students.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Flow Team
Flow:
To be in flow means to be completely involved or focused on the task at hand. But to be in flow the task must create of sense of being outside reality, of inner clarity, tranquility, timelessness, and produce intrinsic rewards for a person. For me, flow is being outside in nature. I feel completely in flow when I’m in that natural world, amongst the trees and the animals. Flow is not only a happy place, but a place where you never want to leave and can’t wait to come back to. I think that as teachers, we all want students to be in flow in our classrooms, but how often does that happen. In order for students to be in flow in our classrooms we need to make learning a situation that ignites curiosity and sparks creativity, because when students are engaged, interested, and able to take what they’ve learned and make it their own they’re in flow.
http://www.educationreformbooks.net/flow.htm
How does it feel to be in flow?
1. Completely involved, focused, concentrating
2. Sense of being outside reality
3. Greater inner clarity- knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going
4. Knowing the activity is doable- that the skills are adequate and neither anxious or bored
5. Sense of serenity, tranquility- no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego
6. Timelessness- focused on the present, don’t notice how time is passing
7. Intrinsic motivation- whatever produces flow becomes its own reward
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Fedoras Web and Youtube annotations
Six Thinking Hats
This youtube clip has animation that explains the functions of each hat. The good thing about this video is that it gives you tips on remember what each hat is. For example, the red hat is for someone to express their feelings, so think of warmth to remember that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVxSk1MqO4
This site explains the hats, but gives an example of how to use them.
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm
This image shows each hat, what it stands for, and some questions to ask yourself when wearing it.
Ways to use the Six Thinking Hats method
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Flourishtivity Summary
Team Flourishtivity
-This site gives a breakdown of Ch. 8 of Amabile’s book. It discusses 8 environmental factors in work place that will help to foster creativity in the minds of the individuals.
http://thylmann.net/blog/2004/5/20/how-to-kill-creativity-by-teresa-amabile.html
-This is a short blog discussion on how creativity is killed. We felt that we could gain some insight on how to promote creativity by seeing what things can kill creative minds and ideas.
http://maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumAmabile.htm
-This website expands on the information from Amabile on how creativity is killed. We liked some of the information that was presented and feel that it will be helpful to us.
http://www.bnet.com/blog/harvard/the-3-keys-to-organizational-creativity/9140
-This blog outlines Amabile’s 3-steps to organizational creativity. Once again, we felt it contained some interesting information that we would be able to use.
-At our last team meeting, I felt like we were finally able to get on the same page and I think things are starting to come together for us. There are still some items that were are not sure about and we are starting to run into trouble when trying to find information on Amabile, as most of the websites contain similar information. Overall, I feel we have a fairly decent grasp on what is going on.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Flourishtivity
Flourishitivity
Nicolle, Spencer, Eric Group Name: Flourishtivity, a spontaneous decision for our group name, describing the flourishing creativity we hope to promote in our classrooms! Our team's topic is Teresa Amabile's model for creativity to flourish. Amabile's study of creativity in the workplace resulted in her theory of the factors that promote creativity. Three important elements are domain relevant skills, creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation. This week's discussion of what was creative about the shell video touched on creativity-relevant skills. The creators of the video were able to imagine the perspective of the shell, which demonstrates their creative skills. The video below is a student-made video illustrating intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohkieaDkDs&feature=related
Fullo
Fullo
Rebekah, Dow & Jen = Team Our Plato is Fullo (Thanks to Rebekah for our team name reflecting a hybrid of our hectic schedules, critical thinking, and a little spanish flair!) Our topic is the Questioning Model, also known as the Integrated Curriculum Model out of William and Mary College. It is a model of classroom instruction designed towards gifted learning styles to promote critical thinking. Here is a video about the importance of critical thinking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLPL5p0fMg This week we discussed in our group about whether creativity is still valid if it doesn't seem to have a point. Creativity should relate to the learner's interests.
By Jennifer on Week 2 on 2/5/11
Flourishtivity
Spencer, Eric Group Name: Flourishtivity, a spontaneous decision for our group name, describing the flourishing creativity we hope to promote in our classrooms! Our team's topic is Teresa Amabile's model for creativity to flourish. Amabile's study of creativity in the workplace resulted in her theory of the factors that promote creativity. Three important el
Monday, January 31, 2011
Week 2
This week you will meet with your new groups to select your favorite topic to "research".
One person each week will write a summary of the group discussion each week. You will post a reply to this post and share your team topic and something about your group.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Group Work
Each week one person from each group will provide an update of progress made on their research.
This will provide practice with this method of communicating.
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