Like fattening a goose before slaughter, force feeding students endless content in the form of declarative sentences and then asking them to remember the content is mindless teaching at its best, and mental torture at its worst.

Purposeful questions force us to define our task. We must begin to evaluate information instead of mindlessly accepting it as truth. We begin to look at our sources of information as well as the quality.  ~Michael Covel

How effective were you in incorporating some of the strategies and/or technologies learned during the last 3 weeks of FLIGHT? ( surveys) 

Why Critical Thinking and Reading? 

 AGENDA

• Welcome
  • Thinking and Reading Critically.pptx
  • New Poll
  • Gallery Walk of Accomplishments

• The Need for Critical Thinking in the Conceptual Age
  • What is Critical Literacy:  Critical Thinking and Critical Reading

• 4 Areas of Shift:  Intelligence, Instruction, Curriculum, Assessment
   
• INTELLIGENCE: overview
   
• INSTRUCTION:  focus on strategies
   
  Lunch:  Did You Know (video)
   
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
   
• CURRICULUM:  focus on unit development
   
• ASSESSMENT:  overview