Building Critical Thinking Skills and Infusing Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills into the Gifted and Talented Classroom (6-Hour)

$90.00

(288 customer reviews)

Presenter: Bob Iseminger, Pieces of Learning
Core Area: Differentiated Curriculum
Grade Level: Elementary & Secondary
Hours: 6

What good is a tool if we do not teach a child how to use it? If information is a tool, critical thinking skills are the key to making that information useful for our students. In this course, you will learn how technology in the 21st century has changed the way G/T students interact with information and how it helps them build critical thinking skills in the classroom and beyond.  

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The current cohort of high school students are the first in history to grow up as digital natives. That means they are the first generation to be surrounded by digital media since birth. At a time when information is more available than ever, critical thinking and creativity are at a low in our student populations. In Building Critical Thinking Skills and Infusing Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills into the Gifted and Talented Classroom, Bob Iseminger tackles these tough challenges with practical application for your G/T classroom.

In this 6-hour course, you will learn:

  • The definition of critical thinking
  • The many types of learning supported by the brain
  • Lower and higher level questioning The auditory/sequential and visual/spatial processes of the brain
  • Strategies for developing creative thinking
This course is aligned with 2016 ODE Teacher Competencies a, b, c, f, g and NAGC Teacher Preparation Standards 3.1, 5.1, 5.2.

Presenter Bio

Bob Iseminger has over 25 years of experience in public education as a classroom teacher, math resource teacher, and coordinator of a gifted education magnet center. He has worked in both urban and suburban settings at the elementary and middle school levels, and in a consulting capacity with high school students. Mr. Iseminger currently serves as a staff development consultant for school districts nationwide in addition to presenting at state gifted conferences. He is the co-author of several books including “Cultivating Classroom Conversations” and “Choice and Challenge: Engaging Anchor Activities for the Differentiated Classroom”. 

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288 reviews for Building Critical Thinking Skills and Infusing Creativity and Creative Thinking Skills into the Gifted and Talented Classroom (6-Hour)

  1. Jordan – GALVESTON ISD (verified owner) –

    I thought this course was very resourceful and provided A LOT and good information. Will definitely be using what I’ve learned from this training in the classroom.

  2. Alma – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very informative and well-worth to watch course!

  3. Monica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great!

  4. Ingryd – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great example of activities that can be applied during math lessons.

  5. Martha – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Very interesting activities not only for the gifted classes about also for the mixed classes.

  6. Elvia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    very informative

  7. Troy – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner) –

    great

  8. Maggie – New Lexington City Schools (verified owner) –

    This course gives great strategies to meet ALL students in the classroom. It also gave examples on how to us it in each content, rather than just one or a few of them.

  9. Miriam – SPRING ISD (verified owner) –

    The best!!

  10. Amber – NORTHSIDE ISD – SAN ANTONIO – REGION 20 (verified owner) –

    I found this course to very informative. I will go back and use many of the strategies in my classroom.

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