Friday, September 24 & Friday, October 1 ~ 1:00-2:30 EDT (2-part workshop)
$545.00
Webinar Description
In this two part workshop, Dr. Timothy Walter will present a validated instructional program of basic cognitive and behavioral critical thinking and learning strategies that are viewed as general education outcomes by many institutions of higher education. The critical thinking and learning strategies these students have learned are those basic strategies upon which much higher level critical thinking and learning is based as described in Bloom's Taxonomy. The workshop will focus on introducing participants to the intellectual model upon which these cognitive and behavioral strategies are based and then participants will see how instructors in the classroom can engage students in interactive classroom exercises which facilitate the learning of basic critical thinking and learning strategies Participants will leave the workshop with skills to teach students in all courses the critical thinking and learning strategies upon which higher level thinking and learning is developed and which make thinking and learning more orderly and effective. They will specifically learn how to teach students to apply these cognitive and behavioral strategies to their texts, readings, lectures, and class discussions.
Objectives Part I - Participants will . . .
• Define what successful learners and thinkers do in the classroom and outside the classroom
• Learn how to teach:
o focusing reading, thinking, and learning
o focused note-taking
o focused test preparation
Part II - Participants will learn . . .
• what the TCDR strategy of critical thinking entails as described in Dr. Walter's co-authored book "Critical Thinking: Building the Basics."
• how Dr. Walter and his colleagues studied successful critical thinkers and learners to determine the essential characteristics of successful learning and thinking.
• what more successful thinkers and learners do as compared to less successful thinkers and learners.
• why the TCDR strategy is the basis upon which higher order thinking skills (i.e. applying, analyzing, and evaluating information) are based.
• why the TCDR strategy is the basis for critical thinking skills required for academic success.
• how to teach students the TCDR strategy of critical thinking by working through a series of exercises
• how the TCDR strategy is related to Bloom's Taxonomy.
• basic classroom instructional strategies that increase the likelihood of students learning the critical thinking and learning strategies that are the basis of the TCDR strategy of critical thinking.
Who Should Attend?
Any college faculty member, staff member or administrator who interacts with or teaches students will benefit from participating in this workshop.
Who are the Speakers?
Dr. Timothy L. Walter, Dean of Academic and Student Services at Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Dr. Walter is a leading authority in the area of student success. He has written eight editions of his text Student Success, three editions of The Adult Learner's Guide to College Success, and two editions of Critical Thinking: Building the Basics. He was honored in 1994 as an Outstanding Advocate of First Year Students by The National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. He has consulted widely in the area of student success and the first-year experience.
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