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Phasing Into the New GED 2002


Introduction

The purpose for Part I Phasing Into the New GED 2002: Preparing Students to Think Critically is to identify and explain new teaching strategies which can be adopted in adult education classrooms to facilitate student success when taking the new GED. The primary focus of this manual are critical thinking, teaching strategies, thematic planning, and integrated lessons related to real life experiences such as The World We Work In, The World We Live In and The World We Inherited.

In this section we discuss:
Getting Started

To better understand Phasing Into the New GED you should understand:

  • What is critical thinking?
  • How do I help students to think critically?
  • What is Blooms Taxonomy?
More information on these topic areas:

Critical Thinking Faculty Development: UTC
This informative site answers the questions What is Critical Thinking? and Why Teach Critical Thinking? Characteristics of critical thinking are clearly identified and teaching strategies to help promote critical thinking skills are provided. Many links to other useful internet resources are included.
http://www.utc.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/critical.html

Writing Lesson Plans - Critical Thinking (Bloom's Taxonomy)
Details the anatomy of a lesson plan utilizing critical thinking skills based on the hierarchy of learning levels as defined by Bloom's Taxonomy.
http://www.huntington.edu/education/lessonplanning/Bloom.html

California Academic Press Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric
This page offers an assessment device that can be used in conjunction with objective tests to provide multiple measures of critical thinking performance.
http://www.calpress.com/rubric.html


Mission: Critical
The user will be introduced to the basic concepts of critical thinking in this interactive tutorial for critical thinking. Immediate reinforcement for right and wrong answers aids utilization of the essential tools of intellectual analysis.
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/#tutorial

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
The resources on this Critical Thinking website are divided between the core resources and discipline-specific resources. Within these divisions they are further divided between internal resources (that contributors have developed) and external resources (located elsewhere on the Internet).
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/toc.htm

Merit Audio Visual - Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Effective Reading
This Windows software program helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills and develop their ability to make inferences. Download a time-limited evaluation version.
http://www.meritsoftware.com/dcts

Sample Test Questions - Six Levels of Learning
Test questions should be designed to evaluate student's ability to think at any of the six different levels of abstraction as identified by Bloom. This page demonstrates how the same content information can be assessed at six different levels of cognition.
http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/IONresources/bloomtest.html


Additional Resources for Bloom's Taxonomy:
http://www.stedwards.edu/cte/bloomtax.htm
http://sweep.riv.csu.edu.au.td/bloom.html
http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/MA/resources/blooms/teachers_blooms.html
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html

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