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Increasing Academic rigor in the Classroom - Bloom's Taxonomy

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The development of critical and creative kinds of thinking is a major goal for education in the 21st century. Teachers need to be furnished with techniques for scaffolding and strategies that involve learners in developing their abilities to engage in high order processes. The development of improved thinking among our students should be the focus of our attention.



WHAT IS COVERED IN THIS WORKSHOP?
  • Exploring how students can be trained to be low order thinkers or high order thinkers
  • Giving practitioners the tools to improve the cognitive ability of their students and ensure that they are guided to become critical thinkers
  • Developing strategies that would be used in formative assessments to immerse students in the subject manner causing enquiry based learning to take place
  • Understanding the instructional strategies that can be used to ensure that your students are developing their creative and critical thinking skills


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