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Comment by Alethia Elaine Caldwell on January 17, 2018 at 11:43pm

I am sooo happy to complete the audio section...and finally see my certificate...I just love this course...I have always been told i am giving the children too much information when teaching small children to think outside the box...but I am glad I do...I had sooo many reflections while completing the audios..I really felt proud of developing small minds into critical thinkers. thank you.

Comment by Alethia Elaine Caldwell on January 16, 2018 at 9:19pm

Hi I am really thankful to be apart of this course. I have competed all the audios part successfully. where do I post the lesson plan...if I wrote it already. 

Comment by Lorene on January 16, 2018 at 12:50am

Four Methodologies of Collaborative Learning

1.  Socratic Seminar

2.  Academic Conversation Skills

3.  Project Based Learning

4.  Service Learning.

What a journey!  And I still travelling.  I am wondering if I am doing the right thing.  There seems to be a pre-quiz and a post-quiz for each methodology.  Should we do both or should we skip the pre and do the post?

The questions are all interesting, however, and its a great idea to do everything.

Comment by Antonio Baker on January 13, 2018 at 5:47pm

I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to the audios and doing the toolkit because they helped me to understand bloom taxonomy even more. Not only so but it presently the information in "chewable bits"

Comment by Eleith on January 6, 2018 at 3:28pm

Wow! It was quite a journey, but I truly enjoy every bit of it. From collaborative methodologies , theocratic seminar ,Academic conversation skills,Project base learning and service learning. Indeed these audios both refresh and remotivate me to continue on this teaching journey. Surely I will continue to use the ones I was using and incorporate the others that seem challenging.  A big thank you to the team ,from Mico and ITEN for making me apart of this edifying brief course. 

Comment by Lorene on January 5, 2018 at 9:28pm

i really appreciate being a part of the critical thinking course.  This has also been helping me to be a critical thinker.

"I feel confident using critical questions to promote higher levels of thinking"

I realized that I have been using the Scientific Method  when students are doing their School Based Assessment in Office Procedures, however, it was never incorporated in my lesson planning.

The five steps Scientific Method are:

1.   Identify a Problem

2.   Hypothesize

3.   Gather Data

4.   Examine Findings

5.   Form Conclusion

When students hypothesize critical thinking is encouraged. 

I will now use the scientific method when planning the lesson. 

Comment by Nicole Samms on January 5, 2018 at 4:20pm

I have completed all 7 audios as well as the toolkit. I highly recommend this course to all educators at every level.. thoroughly enjoyed it.  very interesting course. Glad i did it.  

Comment by Nicole Samms on January 5, 2018 at 4:04pm

I really enjoyed listening to these audios, I especially enjoyed learning about the  term Socratic Seminar as this is one activity that I believe can be used even with early childhood students. This is where the children are placed in small groups and the children help each other to understand the ideas and issue through a group discussion format. The teacher can begin the conversation for the children at this age and then allow them to generate their own ideas. This is a good way to get the children to think critically.

Comment by Pauline B. King on January 5, 2018 at 2:01am

Thank you Kareen for your response. I am also very greatful to Mico and Mr. Weathers to give me the opportunity  to be exposed to this program. I have been refreshed and have also learnt some methods about Critical Thinking. I will be using these methods in my classroom to help and advance teaching learning.

Comment by S.R Thomas on January 3, 2018 at 8:32am

Its a new school term/semester for everyone, lets all endeavor to incorporate all that we have learned from audios 1-6 especially. Let us remind ourselves that it is essential that we as teachers/lecturers should make sure we facilitate the learning process by allowing students to be active participant in their learning process. Learning about the Socratic seminar, academic conversation skills, project based Learning, service Learning and the scientific method was very informative and very refreshing for me to take on the challenge of 2018 and beyond. Its important that the learners become critical thinkers and we the educators use the Benjamin Blooms Taxonomy and focus on the higher order level. My subject area in the Secondary setting is Visual Arts and although this program obviously doesn't give practical examples on how to use critical thinking in that subject area. I have to learn from listening to the audios and use examples and manipulate it to suit my subject area. As a part time lecturer at the tertiary level its essential that my learners be active participants in the learning process therefore I usually give collaborative activities for each member to think and express their views after they research a concept etc. Now understanding how to impart the knowledge of how to teach my learners to think it will be easier for me in this new semester to create learning activities that will enable my learners to be better critical thinkers.

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