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Classrooms of Understanding: Scratching Below the Surface
The document discusses strategies for enhancing critical thinking in classrooms, focusing on five key lenses: metacognition, problem-solving, creativity, thinking skills, and inquiry. It highlights tools for assessing understanding such as formative and summative assessments, collaborative projects, and self-evaluations. The authors, Philip Cummings and Alice Parker, encourage brainstorming and reflection on students' 'gems of understanding.'
Classrooms of Understanding: Scratching Below the Surface
- 1. Classrooms of Understanding The2013 Martin Institute Summer Conference Philip Cummings and Alice Parker Presbyterian Day School
- 2. Let’s warm upour brains…
- 3. What does scratchingbelow theWhat does scratching below the surface for understanding looksurface for understanding look like in your classroom?like in your classroom?
- 4. 5 Lenses ofCritical Thinking5 Lenses of Critical Thinking MetacognitionMetacognition Problem-SolvingProblem-Solving CreativityCreativity Thinking SkillsThinking Skills InquiryInquiry
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- 7. Brainstorming…Brainstorming… FluencyFluency Piggyback IdeasPiggyback Ideas WildIdeas Are OkayWild Ideas Are Okay Suspend JudgmentSuspend Judgment
- 8. Checking UnderstandingChecking Understanding •Formative and Summative AssessmentsFormative and Summative Assessments • Collaborative Projects (Rubrics)Collaborative Projects (Rubrics) • ChecklistsChecklists • Teacher ObservationsTeacher Observations • Student Reflections/Self-Evaluations –Student Reflections/Self-Evaluations – “What are your gems of understanding?”“What are your gems of understanding?”
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- 10. Alice Parker Email: aparker@pdsmemphis.org Twitter: @AliceMParker Blog: alicemparker.wordpress.com Skype:aparkerpds Philip Cummings Email: pcummings@pdsmemphis.org Twitter: @Philip_Cummings Blog: http://philipcummings.com Skype: philipcummings