Good Morning!

RET-U

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Housekeeping…

…where can I get food? Coffee?

…email to mentor later today.

…PBWorks email will go out this morning.

…mileage forms.

Nothin’ tastes quite as good as a tall, cold

glass of NORMS.

Everything in life worth achieving requires PRACTICE.

Once you grasp this simple principle, you can focus on

strengthening the ATTITUDE, SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE needed to

practice with

Education Matters

ON YOUR OWN…

• What is it you want your students to know and be able to do by the time they leave your school?

BUCKET

LIST

AT YOUR TABLE…

• COMBINE YOUR LISTS

• CREATE A POSTER

• FIND A SPOT TO HANG IN THE ROOM

• SHARE OUT

RULES• WORK IN PAIRS• DO NOT HUDDLE

• CAN’T COPY PARTNER’S ENTIRE

LISTS!

GoGo (aka Give One, Get One)

Chat Again…

• Determine 2-3 most common responses (skills) mentioned during your GoGo.

• Write them on a poster and hang up.

Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009

• Communication Skills • Collaboration Skills • Time Management • Interview Skills • Personal Financial Literacy • Digital Literacy • Ability to analyze multiple perspectives • Ability to share his or her own

perspective (i.e., blogs, social media, and creating original work to post online)

• Civic Literacy • The Tools Needed to Succeed in First Year

College Courses, without Remediation • Resilience • Punctuality

Francis Bacon on CRITICAL THINKING

• Having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences

• Being gifted by nature with desire to seek • Patience to doubt • Fondness to meditate • Slowness to assert • Readiness to consider • Carefulness to dispose and set in order

How Science WorksUC, Berkeley

Critical Thinking in NGSS

IOWA did you know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMsNct4X_GU