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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Description

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. James – ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD (verified owner) –

    The length and depth of this course is ideal. All the information is clear and concise, and the activities are engaging.

  2. Matt – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –

    Great-

  3. Jeffrey – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –

    Very helpful for beginning teachers of gifted students.

  4. Daniel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I really enjoyed this course it taught me plenty of ideas to get my students involved and to participate in discussions to elaborate on the material covered.

  5. Emma – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –

    It was very insightful.

  6. Benjamin – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    The course offers great strategies that help the teacher create ways to intellectually challenge gifted students.

  7. Maikely – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was very good.

  8. Juan – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    Great very informative

  9. Cynthia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    I felt that some of the reflection questions were not very relevant to the overall message of the session

  10. John – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –

    This course was informative, and appropriately paced.

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