Karin St Pierre Teaching Critical Thinking Through Literature Nick Larocca Building a Thesis Professor St Pierre Teaching Critical Thinking Through Literature LIT 2090 Contemporary Literature ID: 1034071
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1. Stewart Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients, 2011Karin St. Pierre Teaching Critical Thinking Through Literature Nick LaroccaBuilding a Thesis
2. Professor St. Pierre: Teaching Critical Thinking Through LiteratureLIT 2090 Contemporary LiteratureLearning Outcomes:Students will demonstrate improved critical thinking skills; students will demonstrate an increased willingness to think critically.
3. Lesson PlanStage One, Pre-ReadingFirst month of the semester: Require students to work collaboratively and individually, addressing questions about major life themes that appear in the novel.Train students to use a set of generic question stems (see Wolcott; Lynch, 2001) to create their own questions appropriate for the content to be learned.Require students to answer each other’s questions in small groups.
4. Lesson PlanStage Two, During ReadingSecond Month of Semester a. While students are reading outside the classroom, require them to answer questions more narrowly focused on novel. b. Share with students previous responses generated during stage one. Students, during this stage, should begin to generate their own critical thinking questions about the text.
5. Lesson PlanStage Three, Post-ReadingThird Month of Semester a. Assign students the task of evaluating published, critical perspectives. b. Require students to compare/contrast the novel with other works of fiction studied during the semester. c. View, in class, the award-winning, critically acclaimed movie adaptation and encourage discussion of the differences between the novel and film.
6. Teaching Methods Used…LectureResearchGroup WorkOnline ResearchStudent PresentationDiscussion SocraticPowerPoint
7. Assessment of Learning Outcomes William Perry, (1913-1998) Professor of Education, Harvard
8. Perry’s Stages, Simplified
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10. Timing and Types of Assessments Month 1Month 3Month 4Month 2LEGENDShort Essay: Topic Choices are “The Best Class or Worst Class I Ever Had” or “How I Learn Best”One-Minute Essay: Topic Choices are “What’s the Most Important Think I Learned in Class Today? Or “What One Question Still Remains”?“Critical Thinking Disposition Self-Rating Form”
11. Evidence of Student Learning Brian (Pseudonym) 1/5/12 : DUALISM 1/19/12 : MULTIPLISM
12. Evidence of Student LearningBrian (Pseudonym) 1/31/12: DUALISM 2/28/12: MULTIPLISM
13. “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting ‘bout the big things, you learn about the litte ones, almost by accident…The more I wonder, he say, the more I love.” Albert, The Color Purple Alice Walker
14. Professor LaRocca – Building a ThesisENC 1102: College Compostion IILearning OutcomesDemonstrate original writing using standard written English, including accepted standards of grammar and punctuation.Use critical thinking skills to develop a clear, focused thesis and content that are appropriate to purpose of the assignment, including argument Provide coherent, organized support for ideas using relevant, specific details and concrete examplesMaintain a style, tone, and language appropriate for an academic audienceUnderstand and avoid plagiarism as defined in the Palm Beach State College Student HandbookRecognize the possibilities to strengthen writing through revision and editing
15. Overview of ProjectFeedbackFeedbackFeedback
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17. Thesis Construction
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19. Steps Five and Six
20. Student Skills Practiced
21. Student Example – Working ThesisNosocomial infections in hospitals develop because of issues related to visitors and staff hygiene; the improper handling of breathing machines and ventilators; the improper insertion or maintenance of catheters and intravenous lines; the failure to follow use of sterile protocol during surgery and transfusions; and the opportunity that bacteria endogenous to the patient find when the patient is in a weakened state.
22. Student Example – In Essay Hospitals are generally known as places of remedy. Persons who are ill go there with the expectation that they will receive treatment and recover. Unfortunately however, many of those individuals develop an infection as a direct consequence of their stay in the hospital. Infections that are acquired while a patient is in the hospital are referred to as nosocomial infections; a term derived from nosos the Greek word for 'disease'. Nosocomial infections occur worldwide and affect both developed and resource-poor countries. Even though many strides have been made in the progress of public health and hospital care, infections continually develop in patients admitted to healthcare facilities. There are many factors that promote the increase in infection rates among patients. These include: the decreased immunity among patients that gives bacteria endogenous to the patient the chance to develop; poor infection control practices that facilitate transmission of pathogens to the patient and their environment; bacteria that become drug-resistant, rendering antibiotics ineffective; the improper insertion or maintenance of catheters and intravenous lines; the improper handling of breathing machines and ventilators; and the failure to follow sterile and aseptic protocol during surgical procedures.
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24. Assessments