They will learn to use equipment, software, and strategies to find, evaluate, organize, provide access to, and disseminate textual, audio, graphical and video information. Restricted to students with Professional Ed admission. This course is intended to raise awareness of the variety of models, and strategies available for enhancing student creative thinking. Focus will be on the development of skills and applications of models and techniques. Demonstrations of applications and processes in teaching classroom content will be available.
Emphasis is on their use in teaching the regular curriculum.
The cognitive psychology underlying the processes is studied along with relevant research findings. Critical thinking processes which are explored include deductive and inductive reasoning, questioning, problem solving and decision making. Emphasis is on the integration of thinking skills and classroom content. Restricted to students with Professional Ed admission. Focus is on the changes of adolescence with special attention given to the biological, cognitive, social and emotional systems.