Intro to the Critical Skills Classroom

Catalog description

The Critical Skills Classroom is a comprehensive model that creatively and effectively integrates four powerful teaching methodologies into a coherent strategy: collaborative learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning, standards-driven learning. Working together these methodologies provide teachers and students the means to simultaneously and intentionally build and sustain a strong, supportive classroom learning community, target the curriculum in ways that provide both a depth of understanding and meaningful learning, develop the critical skills and fundamental dispositions and meet or exceed the demands of district and state frameworks and standards. In this course, we will explore and apply both practical and theoretical aspects of the Critical Skills Classroom in a variety of contexts. Online course.