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Best Practices |
Global
Perspective
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Critical Thinking
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Multicultural Perspective
1.0 The
teacher and other school personnel create learning
opportunities that encourage student’s development of
critical thinking, problem solving, and performance
skills and skillfully assesses these attributes.
a.
Verbal ability is a
primary attribute of teacher effectiveness, and is infused
into the critical thinking theme that the Unit emphasizes,
and an expectation of teacher candidates.
b.
Candidates are
taught to think precisely about thinking: using critical
vocabulary is an expectation of teacher candidates.
c. Seven major categories
including interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference,
presenting arguments, reflection, and dispositions
characterizes the Unit’s critical thinking emphasis and is a
knowledge expectation of teacher candidates.
d. Teacher candidates are
required to work in new ways that prepare all students to
frame problems; find, integrate, and synthesize information;
create new solutions; learn on their own; and work
cooperatively.
e. Thinking skills are
viewed as crucial for educated persons to cope with a
rapidly changing world and is a content knowledge
expectation for teacher candidates.
f. Candidates are
expected to have the capacity to help students make the
connections between what they know and new concepts,
information, or skills they need to acquire to effectively
maximize learning.
g. Candidates are expected to practice Socratic
discussion to help Pk-12 students clarify and question
beliefs, theories, or perspectives.
h. Candidates are expected to develop thinking
skills to help Pk-12 students make plausible inferences,
predictions, interpretations, while recognizing
contradictions.
i. Candidates are expected to teach Pk-12 learners
to analyze and evaluate arguments, interpretations, beliefs,
and theories and generate and assess solutions, actions and
policies, and to make effective interdisciplinary
connections.
j. Candidates are expected to read critically:
clarifying and critiquing written texts.
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