CHEP online workshop: Opening academic skills ‘windows’ in your teaching: 3 short activities to develop students’ critical thinking
Wednesday 24th January 2024, 12:00pm
Our students have diverse backgrounds and educational experiences. As a result, providing opportunities or “windows” for students to practice degree-level academic skills before assignments is useful (Wingate, 2016).
This session will demonstrate 3-5 (depending on time) fairly short critical thinking activities to integrate into your regular subject teaching. The activities draw on theory-focused reading texts (e.g. extracts from journal articles/student essay writing), rather than technical data or processes. Once students are familiar with them, these short tasks can be adapted, used as ‘warmer’ activities, introduced at relevant points in a session, or set as challenges for students to create themselves.
To
get the most from the session, participants should bring along 2 or
more text extracts which illustrate the kind of critical thinking which
participants look for in their teaching and assessment. Essentially –
they should bring something which shows what good critical thinking
looks like in their subject in (a) expert work and (b) student work.
Participants are welcome to share short extracts (e.g. a paragraph)
with the facilitator in advance of the session to help make the session
more relevant.
Details
| Location: | Highfield Campus (in-person) |
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