COD 2007 - P066

Developing our students' thinking skills: a challenge in the classroom

Primary School Teachers.

3 sessions, start: 25-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Elizabeth White
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Non affiliate
ARS 120.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 25 August 2007 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 01 September 2007 09:00 am 12:00 pm
3 15 September 2007 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Elizabeth White

Lic. Elizabeth White is a teacher of English and teacher trainer, graduate of I.S.P. "J. V. González". She holds a postgraduate degree in e-learning. She has worked as General Head of English Studies (Kindergarten to Secondary School) at bilingual schools in the Buenos Aires Province since 1988. She is a tenured lecturer in English Language Teaching and Teaching Practice at the ISP "Pbro. Sáenz", and is the coordinator of the Teaching Practice team. She has been an Oral Examiner for the University of Cambridge for over fifteen years. She has conducted several workshops, seminars and lectures around the country and abroad.
Primary School Teachers.
- To promote the need to develop higher order thinking skills in students. - To explore ways of enhancing students' capacity for thinking and learning. - To reflect upon classroom practices that lead to effective cognitive development.
What are thinking skills? Intelligence: definition and components. Different kinds of intelligence. Brain dominance and learning. Information processing. How thinking skills enhance learning. From lower to higher order thinking skills. Different aspects of teaching thinking: creative thinking, critical thinking, problem solving. A framework for scaffolding students' thinking skills. The problem of skills transfer. Steps and guidelines to introduce thinking skills in the classroom. Thinking skills across the curriculum: how to use them in maths, language, natural science and social studies. Thinking skills as a daily tool: classroom activities and lessons. Evaluation of results.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore a variety of thinking skills that can be taught and used in different classroom situations. Discussion tasks through workshop activities will give teachers the chance to consider how to apply these skills to their own reality, include them in their lesson plans, try them out and share their experience.
- Fisher, R. (1990) Teaching Children to Think. UK: STP. - Johnson, A. (2003) El desarrollo de las habilidades del pensamiento. Buenos Aires: Troquel. - O'Malley, J & L. Valdez-Pierce (1996) Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners. USA: Addison-Wesley. - Tice (1997) The Mixed Ability Class. London: Richmond. - Lowes, R. & Francesca Target (1998) Helping Students to Learn. London: Richmond. - Rozakis, L. (1998) 101 Fresh and Fun Critical-thinking activities. New York: Scholastic. - Nickelsen, L. (2003) Comprehension Activities for Reading in Social Studies and Science. New York: Scholastic.
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