Helping College Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills文档.pptVIP

JiTT Just-in-Time Teaching JiTT enhances student involvement because students come to class having recently completed their web assignment; therefore, they come ready to participate. Students typically also feel empowered since they know that what will happen in class depends in part on what they and their classmates have formulated. * JiTT Fosters Class Discussions * JiTT Just-in-Time Teaching Highly flexible, JiTT can be adapted to different disciplines, different courses and levels, varying class schedules, and different instructor preferences. The basic component is always the feedback loop between what students do during class and what they do prior to and after class. * Adding Tools to Your Trade/Art What can you do that you haven’t tried before to help your students develop critical thinking skills? * Appendix Bloom’s Taxonomy and Revision * Bloom’s Taxonomy  Bloom, B.S. (1956) In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990s a new group of cognitive psychologists, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Blooms), updated the taxonomy reflecting relevance to 21st century work (Pohl, M. Website: /educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomyhtm) * Bloom’s Taxonomy  Bloom, B.S. (1956) Bloom’s Taxonomy used the categories knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Anderson and her colleagues changed the nouns to verbs and altered the highest levels of thinking – remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating (Pohl, M. Website: /educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomyhtm) * Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised Version (Anderson, L.W. et al., 2000) Remembering: can the student recall or remember the information? Understanding: can the student explain ideas or concepts? Applying: can the student use the information in a new way? Analysing: can the student distinguish between the diffe