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

$90.00

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.

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

  1. Mayra – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    Amazing course to be more creative and amazing resources.

  2. Velia – PROSPER ISD (verified owner)

    very helpful

  3. John – Private Pay (verified owner)

    Great Course with lots of real-life classroom application.

  4. Jennifer – PROSPER ISD (verified owner)

    Provided new strategies of how to work with students and examples.

  5. Melissa – CONROE ISD (verified owner)

    There are many great activities presented that can be used in the classroom

  6. Noreen – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    I really enjoyed this course and the different creative thinking strategies it provided.

  7. Nan – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    I thought this module was very well presented with useful information that I can implement immediately to challenge all my students.

  8. Shalini – CONROE ISD (verified owner)

    Great course. Very relevant information for my classes.

  9. Jami – PIQUA CITY (verified owner)

    This was long and did not have a lot of new ideas for me

  10. Larnce – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    I believe this course gave me a positive look at ways to reach students of today.

  11. Kimberly – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner)

    This is a great refresher course for creative thinking in the classroom.

  12. Eliana – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative!

  13. ELIZABETH – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    Very good training!

  14. Denise – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    Great strategies for implementing Critical Thinking in the classroom.

  15. Irene – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Excellent course with ready to go strategies for all content areas.

  16. Karen – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    Great course. Definitely integrating some of these strategies into my classroom.

  17. Oscar – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner)

    It’s good

  18. Cassandra – SAN BENITO CISD (verified owner)

    Great strategies

  19. Nichole – HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY & SCHOOL OF SCIENCE – HOUSTON SOUTH 101846 OR 101862 (verified owner)

    This course provides a lot of useful information and attempts to incorporate different core subject areas. I would like one that is SocialStudies/ History focused.

  20. Kasandra – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner)

    I like how this course taught us about the brain and different learning styles.

  21. Justin – SHARYLAND ISD (verified owner)

    It was a great course and I learned new things.

  22. Yanira – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    This course was great and had some valuable ideas I can use to enhance vocabulary in my math classroom.

  23. MELISSA A – SOCORRO ISD (verified owner)

    yes, Great class with lots of new teaching techniques.

  24. Amanda – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    The presenter was very engaging and gave me some great strategies that I plan to implement soon. My favorite idea that I want to try is the Key Word Map.

  25. Christen – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    I learned a lot.

  26. Colette – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    It gave lots of engaging, critically thinking, and fun activities to review and extend on content.

  27. RENEE – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    I really enjoyed the presentor because he was very interesting and funny.

  28. Joshua – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    Very informative. Reinforces many concepts I have learned from this presenter before.

  29. Brandon – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner)

    this was a great course with a lot of wonderful ideas on how to help GT students focus some of their energy.

  30. Rosa – LAREDO ISD (verified owner)

    I liked this course very much. I learned many things and skills that I did not know about before.

  31. Juan – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    It is a good course because it reinforces ideas that must be studied especially creativity. It also gave good strategies.

  32. Teresa – Aldine ISD (verified owner)

    The video clips were just right in length and the speaker has the ability to keep you engaged the entire time.

  33. Sarah – CONROE ISD (verified owner)

    Great activity ideas, just a little difficult to sit through for so long since it was just a video of a speaker talking with very few visuals and changes in shot.

  34. Elizabeth – SILSBEE ISD (verified owner)

    Very interesting and informative class.

  35. Carmen – SPRING ISD (verified owner)

    Excellent source of strategies for your classroom.

  36. Jesus – HARMONY SCIENCE ACAD (EL PASO) (verified owner)

    This is an excellent course because it allowed me to think about how to help all of my students in the classroom to think critically and creatively.

  37. Maria – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    This course is full of activities and visuals that help understand the content.

  38. Minerva – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Excellent ideas to use in the classroom. Presentation was easy to follow.

  39. Lillian – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    Terrific

  40. Belinda – KILLEEN ISD (verified owner)

    The course was well thought out and included just enough interaction to help us process what an activity should look like when we use it in the classroom.

  41. Krista – CARROLL ISD (verified owner)

    I got some really good ideas.

  42. stephanie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner)

    wonderful course. all elements apply to my TTESS teacher goals for this school year. will use most of the material I learned. The presenter was an engaging speaker.

  43. Caitlin – MIAMI TRACE LOCAL (verified owner)

    I enjoyed that this course gave many examples of how to relate the activities specifically to a math classroom.

  44. Maribeth – BELTON ISD (verified owner)

    This was a great course that had many strategies I plan to implement in my classroom.

  45. Dianette – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    It was a great course with lots of useful information.

  46. Kelly – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner)

    Lots of information already heard. Also, the course was just a lot of lecture, and not much activity. It was hard to really learn anything new this way.

  47. Karla – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner)

    Very well presented. Includes just the right amount of useful information and gave excellent ideas and proper examples of how to incorporate them into our class.

  48. Rose – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner)

    It was an amazing course that provided great insight and ideas to incorporate into the classroom.

  49. Christina – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner)

    Organized well.

  50. Barbara – UNITED ISD (verified owner)

    It provides good critical thinking strategies.

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