Critical Skills Immersion 1 - Foundations

Catalog description

This course is designed to be an introduction to the Critical Skills Classroom approach and should be paired with EDT-5504: Critical Skills Immersion 2 - Applications. Participants will explore the foundations of the Critical Skills Classroom, the creation and maintenance of the Collaborative Learning Community, the integration of problem-based learning, experiential learning, collaborative learning and standards-based learning for implementation in their own classroom. Particular attention is given to understanding strategies for: Developing the classroom as a strong, collaborative learning community; Setting standards for quality work; Targeting critical skills and dispositions within curriculum frameworks; Designing problem-based classroom challenges that build community, teach classroom systems, and introduce skills and dispositions; and Organizing teaching and Learning via the Experiential Cycle