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Curriculum Associates: professional development course.


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This one-hour online course for teachers consists of three lessons. The first explains the research behind higher-order thinking Higher-order thinking is a fundamental concept of Education reform based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Rather than simply teaching recall of facts, students will be taught reasoning and processes, and be better lifelong learners.  skills and how students benefit from employing critical thinking, creative thinking and metacognition Metacognition refers to thinking about cognition (memory, perception, calculation, association, etc.) itself or to think/reason about one's own thinking. Types of knowledge . The second lesson enables users to assess their own teaching styles as they relate to higher-order thinking, see how higher-order thinking fits into all curriculum areas and learn ways to integrate it into lessons. The last part contains downloadable lesson plans and problem-solving problem-solving nresolución f de problemas;
problem-solving skills → técnicas de resolución de problemas

problem-solving n
 and decision-making decision-making,
n the process of coming to a conclusion or making a judgment.

decision-making, evidence-based,
n a type of informal decision-making that combines clinical expertise, patient concerns, and evidence gathered from
 activities that build on students' prior knowledge and promote inquiry to foster high-order thinking skills.
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Author:Patton, Carol
Publication:District Administration
Date:Dec 1, 2006
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