Teaching Students How to Think

 

Friday, February 27, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
NEW LOCATION - Driscoll Gallery

One of the most important goals of higher education is to teach students how to think. Yet our efforts are often frustrated by a lack of materials and strategies that give students hands‐on practice thinking critically inside the classroom. Join us to explore how to develop classroom materials that model and stimulate thinking skills. DU faculty members will share concrete examples of how they use assignments and class discussion to elicit critical thinking among students. In addition, time is scheduled for discussion and sharing of ideas among those who attend.

 

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Organizer and Moderator: Chip Reichardt, Professor, Psychology

"Teaching students to think like Aristotle" Ann Dobyns, Professor, and Linda Bensel‐Meyers, Associate Professor, English

"Articulating criteria to make well reasoned choices" Arthur Best, Professor, Sturm College of Law

"Critical Thinking in mathematics through simulation and modeling" Alvaro Arias, Associate Professor, Mathematics

"How to think like a philosopher" Candace Upton, Assistant Professor, Philosophy

 

Developing Reflective Judgment in the Classroom: A Manual for Faculty, by Cindy L. Lynch, Karen S. Kitchener, and Patricia M. King.