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Critical Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

     
AUDIENCE:   All educators
     
DESCRIPTION:  

This one-day professional development opportunity focuses on strategies educators can use to challenge children to use critical thinking skills in all subject areas.

Participants will be prepared to teach students critical thinking skills by using specific instructional strategies such as

  • Non-fiction text graphic organizers
  • Feature analysis
  • Word sorts
  • Summarization
  • Anticipation and study guides
  • Inquiry charts
  • Listen-read-discuss
By using these and other best teaching strategies in all content areas, student long-term memory retention and content understanding will improve.
     

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.