Beyond Bloom-Building Critical Thinking Skills

S26-04502 BEYOND BLOOM-BUILDING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Gayle Meinkes-Lumia - gmeinkeslumia@bufsd.org

3 Credits — Inservice - June 25 — August 15

The Common Core requires educators to infuse a plethora of higher order skills, as well as deductive reasoning techniques into the classroom. This course will enable educators to comprehend the cognitive domains of Bloom’s taxonomy and subsequently move further and develop mastery level thematic strategies that guide students on their journey to success. Cross curricular teaching, interdisciplinary applications, analytic, philosophical and productive reasoning techniques will be addressed.