Applied Critical Thinking for Teaching and Learning Workshop

In this self-paced hybrid workshop for graduate students and post-docs, participants will learn strategies, principles, and good practice for designing instruction for applied critical thinking. Applied critical thinking skills are those that emphasize information evaluation, problem solving, innovation, and knowing-doing-creating across disciplines. Participants will design an online module for a class that they have taught or expect to teach someday. Participants can expect to learn how to -

• employ principles of backward design to create instruction
• create goals, learning objectives, and outcomes
• apply applied critical thinking to their course content and align instruction with at least one of four applied critical thinking outcomes

The workshop itself is asynchronous and online in myCourses. All participants will also meet one-on-one with an instructional designer, instructional leader, or mentor, and have the opportunity to participate in synchronous meetings in person or on Zoom. Better yet, this training is flexible. Participants work on it when they have time. Once a participant enrolls, it is up to them how they pace their work.

The workshop facilitator will host periodic Zoom or face-to-face discussions with all participants so that they can discuss their progress in the workshop and their experiences teaching. Because participants will all be working with the same set of outcomes, they will be able to talk with colleagues across disciplines about how they are designing and assessing their applied critical thinking modules. The workshop should take between 10-15 hours to complete.

The workshop will open on February 15, 2022. Please register for this workshop. Contact Rebecca Johnson (rljtls@rit.edu) with questions.


Contact
Rebecca Johnson
Event Snapshot
When and Where
February 15, 2022
All Day
Room/Location: Online
Who

This is an RIT Only Event

Interpreter Requested?

No