Critical Learning Skills in the 21st Century: Collaborating for Student Success Idaho Commission for Libraries March 10, 2009 Bob Berkowitz, presenter Barbara Jansen, facilitator

Does your unit of instruction: address Idaho science content standards? promote quality learning experiences? promote knowledge use, creation, and production? promote guided inquiry? incorporate higher order thinking skills? help students build content knowledge? move students beyond access & location to construction and assessment? keep students engaged with ideas? give students life-long learning intellectual tools? teach students to be good researchers?

address Idaho science content standards?

promote quality learning experiences?

promote knowledge use, creation, and production?

promote guided inquiry?

incorporate higher order thinking skills?

help students build content knowledge?

move students beyond access & location to construction and assessment?

keep students engaged with ideas?

give students life-long learning intellectual tools?

teach students to be good researchers?

Poster Session Essential question (know, do, be like) Overview—description of the unit/lesson, the problem-solving or decision-making situation(s) (include the subject, theme, issues) Description of what students will do to demonstrate their new knowledge and skills Demonstrate the specific strategies, tactics, tools you will be using. Be sure to note the Big6 connection

Essential question (know, do, be like)

Overview—description of the unit/lesson, the problem-solving or decision-making situation(s) (include the subject, theme, issues)

Description of what students will do to demonstrate their new knowledge and skills

Demonstrate the specific strategies, tactics, tools you will be using. Be sure to note the Big6 connection