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Critical
Thinking Across
the Curriculum
presents
Thinking on Paper: Teaching Techniques that Foster Critical
Thinking
Friday, Sept. 29th 11-1:00
in MS 401, Main Campus
(Snacks will be served)
Do
you want to breathe new life into your students? This
mini-workshop will supply some simple teaching techniques that you
can employ the next day in your classroom to help cultivate and
measure students’critical thinking. Broadly applicable across
disciplines, the pedagogy revolves around short writing exercises
that work well in fields as diverse as biology, math, psychology,
art, and English, and that can be used effectively in trades,
technologies, business, and health.
We’ll
look at a PBS video produced by faculty at Oakton Community
College in Illinois. Their teaching tips are simple to implement
and practical, meant to enhance current practices not supplant
them. The techniques are student-centered, requiring students to
take more responsibility for their education rather than requiring
a lot of extra grading time for the teacher.
After
viewing Oakton’s tips, we’ll discuss ways to incorporate their
ideas and practices into our various courses.
The folks at OCC claim no special training is required to
change the interaction you have with your students and the
interaction your students have with their texts and course content
materials. And if we can believe a group of our fellow teachers,
the changes in teaching and learning can be dramatic. Come get
energized!
Please
RSVP to Patrick Houlihan at 224-3669 or
Houlihan@cnm.edu
by Wed., Sept. 27th if you plan to attend.
One of the CTAC team's
summer projects has been to compose a Mission Statement and Goals
as part of their proposal for continued funding of the initiative.
On July 19th, the group finalized the wording.
Critical Thinking Across the
Curriculum Mission Statement and Goals
July 19, 2000
Mission
Statement:
The overall mission of TVI's Critical Thinking Across the
Curriculum initiative is to develop and strengthen critical
thinking skills of the TVI learning community.
Goals:
1. To challenge and train TVI faculty and instructional staff to
engage in more critical thinking activities.
2. To provide TVI faculty and instructional staff with critical
teaching ideas and to encourage them to improve teaching methods
based on critical thinking models.
3. To establish a network for TVI faculty and instructional staff
to share critical thinking ideas that support continuing
improvement of their course designs, syllabi, and presentations of
course materials.
4. To measure and assess the impact of CTAC's projects on the TVI
learning community.
For further information,
contact:
Joe Krzyzanowski at 224-3959 or email joek@cnm.edu
or Administrative Sponsor Jon Bentley at 224-3675 or email
jbentley@cnm.edu
To contact the Institute:
Albuquerque
Technical-Vocational Institute
Have a news
item or upcoming event to share with TVI instructors
and others interested in "thoughtful teaching for thoughtful
learning"? Please send
it to CTAC, and we'll make sure it appears in this newsletter.
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Evaluations of TVI's
"Thoughtful Teaching for Thoughtful Learning III"
Conference in April, 2000 have been tabulated. To access the
complete forms, click on one of the following:
Assessment
of Overall Event
Creating
a CT Culture
CT
Techniques for the Writing Classroom
Precursors
to CT
Paul's
Approach to CT
Socratic
Questioning
Thoughtful
Teaching with QualityTools
For selected comments from evaluations, see
below.
SPRING 2000 CTAC ASSESSMENT
Comments from participants in April's "Thoughtful Teaching
for Thoughtful Learning" workshop:
"Panel and morning breakout discussion
were excellent - prepared and
thoughtful.
Interesting pool of info for further
pondering.
Good to get together with others to discuss
ideas.
The material was thought-provoking enough to
make me consider altering
my teaching style.
Extremely well organized, teaching tips were
excellent, informality was
appreciated, meals and snacks were good, liked the interaction
with colleagues.
Diversity was good and bringing issues of
quality, equity, service learning
and CT together was important.
Offers clear explanations of CT and good
examples of various ways to
apply it.
Ideas I can use in my class now!
Richard Epstein was good. Afternoon panel
had some interesting and
candid stuff to say.
I learned so much that I can use in my
classes. I value the practical
and the
afternoon sessions in particular were most helpful.
I thought it was intelligently integrated
and I felt stimulated and challenged
to get involved in many of the other aspects of CT.
Very relevant to relate the other
movements/initiatives to CT.
Open discussion from New Jersey and Houston
Community College
participants stimulated the conversation with TVI attendees.
I was given an activity that will be
implemented immediately and help
my students to be "smarter" rather better thinkers and
writers.
It's easy to use and effective.
Good cross-discipline, cross-department
sharing - got valuable ideas for
classroom.
It refined my knowledge/skill of Socratic
questioning and gave me some
activities and techniques to be a more effective instructor. It
also gave me a framework in which to
plug some new yet untried
ideas.
I'm getting a better understanding of what
it is, what is involved in it,
how to
apply it to my classes.
Expanded my wish to work on myself, with my
students and improve my
teaching.
Now I have a clearer picture of what
students need to know about CT.
I liked the service, equity, quality
information.
Great handouts, articles, discussions,
sharing
sessions - all good learning
tools.
Last updated November 15, 2006
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