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Learning Coaches

Learning Coaches. November 9, 2012 Agenda Our Experiences Digging Into Critical Thinking. Our Experiences. Criteria for a meaningful experience . The experience: Is beneficial to others (others might learn an effective strategy, or a “what not to do”)

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Learning Coaches

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  1. Learning Coaches November 9, 2012 Agenda • Our Experiences • Digging Into Critical Thinking

  2. Our Experiences Criteriafor a meaningful experience. The experience: • Is beneficial to others (others might learn an effective strategy, or a “what not to do”) • Helps explore your understanding of the role of a learning coach Tell which of the “commitment to inclusion” statements are championed through this experience, and articulate the alignment between the experience and the commitment statement.

  3. PSD’s Commitments to Inclusion • The idea of fixing students to improving environments • Dependence on staff (teachers and EA’s) to a focus on independence • “Special Ed” to ALL students being special • A deficit model of thinking to a strength based model of thinking • Having high expectations for some to having high expectations for ALL

  4. The Critical Thinking Consortium = TC2TC2CRITICAL THINKING Model What is it, and how do we support teachers to embed it into teaching and learning? Critical Challenge: Investigate an appropriate critical thinking tool that deepens your learning of the critical thinking model.

  5. Critical Challenge:Create a powerful title for this video. Garfield Gini-Newman: Embedding Critical Thinking into the New Social Studies Program of Studies (Part 3) Criteria for a powerful title: • Informative • Catchy / intriguing • Concise

  6. Scaffolding the Learning • Begin by providing exemplars: examples of powerful and not so powerful titles (along with their content) • Discuss what makes this one powerful and the other one not powerful. • Co-create the criteria • From the discussion, elicit the criteria. • Provide 3 or 4 choices of titles • Students select the one they think is the most powerful. They justify their answer in light of the criteria, support with evidence. • When students are ready, progress to creating their own title • Some students may be ready before others. • Embed self- assessment and peer coaching opportunities • Use a Thinking Strategy (see Powerful Title handout).

  7. Critical Challenge:What are the 3 most important ideas in this video? Roland Case: A Model of Critical Thinking (Interview Response - Question 5) Criteria for an importantidea: • Relevant to our discussion • Contains key ideas from the video Use handout “Most Important Ideas”

  8. Scaffolding the Learning How might you scaffold the learning for students, prior to having them determine the most important ideas?

  9. Habits of Mind Background Knowledge Criteria for Judgment Thinking Strategies Critical Thinking Vocabulary

  10. Mini-challenges Short critical challenges that can be used over and over again, in many different contexts, to have students learn the content more deeply.

  11. Modelling the Tools • Modelling the Tools are lessons where teachers explicitly teach one of the tools from the critical thinking model. • They are intended to be used across a grade levels and subject areas. • Use the “Record Your Observations” note taking tool.

  12. Critical Challenge • Investigate an appropriate critical thinking tool that deepens your learning of the critical thinking model. Criteria for an appropriatecritical thinking tool: • Fits within the context of your role as a learning coach. • Meets you where you are at in your own understanding of the critical thinking model.

  13. A Pittance of Time

  14. Resources for you to “purchase” on TC2 Website • Tools for Thought • Source Docs • Critical Challenges

  15. Additional Support on insidePSD → Teachers’ Landing Page → Critical Thinking section Other Resources → TC2 Site → LearnAlberta → Hard copy resources

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