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On what should I focus my attention? Thinking & Reading & Writing (& Feeling)

The Ninth Grade Learning Experience Levels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills. Crews ♦ WMC. On what should I focus my attention? Thinking & Reading & Writing (& Feeling). Why is school important?. (Without education). (With education). Self-Discovery. Abstract World. Essential Knowledge.

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On what should I focus my attention? Thinking & Reading & Writing (& Feeling)

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  1. The Ninth Grade Learning ExperienceLevels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills Crews ♦WMC On what should I focus my attention? Thinking & Reading & Writing (& Feeling)

  2. Why is school important? (Without education) (With education)

  3. Self-Discovery Abstract World Essential Knowledge Stephen Dobyns: “The arts civilize us, not by making us ‘cultured’ but by educating our feelings, by helping us live in the human community and realizing that others have interior lives similar to our own.” NICE TO KNOW SHOULD KNOW MUST KNOW Art “educates our feelings” (Images carry emotion)

  4. Higher-Order Thinking Skills What are the four key thinking skills essential to your success? Abstraction, System Thinking, Experimentation, Collaboration = Teach your brain how to think

  5. Abstraction EXPERIENCES Sensory World SEE HEAR TOUCH SMELL TASTE

  6. Experimentation What does it mean? EXPERIENCE Why is it important? World of the Imagination

  7. PatternsThoughts System Thinking UNDERSTANDING Fun Childhood Friends Vacation Link to the World Around Us

  8. Truth vs. Falsity Value vs. Worthless Right vs. Wrong Reality vs. Fantasy Morality vs. Inhumanity Insight vs. Intuition Objective vs. SubjectiveHappiness vs. Conflict Experimentation ! JUDGMENT Is it so? Ought I to? World of Reason and Rationality

  9. Collaboration DECISION World of Communication

  10. Truth vs. Fallacy Value vs. Worthless Right vs. Wrong Reality vs. Fantasy Morality vs. Inhumanity Insight vs. Intuition Objective vs. SubjectiveHappiness vs. Conflict (Rationality and Responsibility) The Ninth Grade Learning ExperienceLevels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills Built upon Bernard Lonergan's, Integral Cognitional Structure of Truth and Value (Phenomenology and Logic, Toronto Press, 2001) & Robert Reich’s, Education of the Symbolic Analyst (The Work of Nations, Vintage Books, 1992) SYSTEMS DECISION Ought I to? JUDGMENT INQUIRY Is it so? Patterns, Thoughts (Intelligence) UNDERSTANDING What? EXPERIENCE Data, Senses, Images (Awareness) EVIDENCE abstraction system thinking experimentation collaboration

  11. What is the moral of the story? Essential Knowledge Be aware of who you are and what you do Seek the Truth

  12. What is the moral of the story? Self-Discovery Emotional Intelligence Self Awareness Self Regulation Motivation Empathy Social Skill

  13. Personal Edification A Clear Midnight This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars. —Walt Whitman

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