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7 Critical Thinking Skills of Common Core

Robin J. Fogarty, Ph.D. robin@robinfogarty.com

Author of: A School Leaders Guide to the Common Core Solution Tree Press (Spring 2013) How to Teach Thinking Skills Within Common Core: Seven Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards Solution Tree Press Differentiating Instruction A Professional Learning Communities Approach Solution Tree Press

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How to Teach Thinking Skills Within in the Common Core: Seven Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards

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Unpack the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a balanced way, using rich content and rigorous thinking processes. The CCSS thread the skills of literacy and reading, writing, speaking and listening through narrative and informative text. The key to implementing the CCSS with relevancy, is to address them, with explicit teaching of the higher order thinking skills that are embedded in rich subject matter content. (ELA, Science, Math, Social Studies, History, Technology).

The focus is on the high frequency “thinking skills that students need to master. These skills teach kids how to process, analyze, evaluate, produce and present with rich content and relevant thinking. Here is the Syllabus of Seven Thinking Skill Sets and 21 Explicit Thinking Skills that thread across all content areas for student proficiency. Seven Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards: Proficiency #1 - Critical Thinking - Analyze, Evaluate, Problem Solve Proficiency #2 - Creative Thinking - Generate, Associate, Hypothesize Proficiency #3 - Complex Thinking - Clarify, Interpret, Determine Proficiency #4 - Comprehensive Thinking - Understand, Infer, Compare Proficiency #5 - Collaborative Thinking - Explain, Develop, Decide Proficiency #6 - Communicative Thinking - Reason, Connect, Represent Proficiency #7 - Cognitive Transfer of Thinking - Synthesize, Generalize, Apply

Targeted Thinking Skills __ Analyze __ Evaluate __ Problem Solve __ Generate __ Associate __ Hypothesize __ Clarify __ Interpret __ Determine __ Understand __ Infer __ Compare __ Explain __ Develop __ Decide __ Reason __ Connect __ Represent __ Synthesize __ Generalize __ Apply

Mapping the Thinking Skills Based on the formative/summative data for your grade level, department or core team. Rate the top four thinking skills that you think your students can benefit from the most.

What thinking skill would you start with first, etc.? 1st Quarter ___________ 2nd Quarter ___________ 3rd Quarter __________ 4th Quarter ___________

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K - 5 6 -12 ELA MATH ELA MATH

Understanding Read Write Demonstrate Clarify Develop Produce Relationships Describe Compare/Contrast Explain Answer Introduce Sequence Produce Determine Accurately Read/Comprehend Point of View Apply Research/Projects Create Decode Reflection Retell Recall Sequences Inferences Identify Collaborate Organize Ask/Answer Short research Interpret Know and Use Analyze Solve

33 28 22 19 18 18 17 16 14 13 13 13 10 10 9 8 8 8 8 7 6 6 6 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 1

Represent Understand Solve Recognize Interpret Find Explain Compare Describe Write Identify Understanding Divide Determine Graph Apply Sequence Read Answer Create Justify Analyze Develop Compute Relationships Define Evaluate Produce Calculate Sequences Organize

47 40 36 27 22 21 20 19 18 14 12 11 9 9 9 9 7 5 5 5 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1

Analyze Determine Develop Research Clarify Write Relationships Demonstrate Understanding Create Read Evaluate Reflection Read/Comprehend Introduce Produce Organize Point of View Apply Compare/Contrast Explain Inferences for text Sequence Identify Solve Projects Answer Sequences Accurately Interpret Collaborate Reflect Describe

73 50 41 33 32 31 30 28 27 26 26 22 20 20 17 17 17 15 14 12 11 10 9 8 8 8 8 7 7 6 3 3 2

Solve Understand Interpret Relationships Find Graph Represent Apply Describe Explain Prove Write Com/Contrast Recognize Evaluate Determine Identify Compute Develop Produce Inferences Analyze Sequence Divide Calculate Decide Define Answer Create Verify Sequences Justify Read Understanding Reflection

66 54 47 45 43 39 38 34 24 23 21 19 17 17 13 13 11 10 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 6 5 4 3 3 2 2 1 1

*This list is a comprehensive representation of ELA and MATH CCSS, but it is not a complete representation of complex thinking references.

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Three - Phase Model: Explicit Teaching

Phase I – TALK THROUGH (I Do) - Explicit Teaching of a Thinking Skill

1) Motivating Mind Set-Focus; hook

2) Description-Explanation, not definition

3) Menu of Operations/Acronym

4) Instructional Strategy - Process (thinking skill) as the Content

5) Assessment-Check for Understanding

6) Metacognitive Reflection/Self-assessment; commentary

Phase II - WALK THROUGH (We Do) – Apply to Classroom Content Lesson

Teacher Guided Content Lesson

Motivational Mind Set:

Instructional Activity with Standard:

Closure with Take Away:

Phase III – DRIVE THROUGH (You Do) – Apply to CCSS Performance

Student Directed CCSS Performance Task

Motivational Mind Set:

Instructional Activity with Exemplar:

Closure with Take Away:

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Objective:

Explicit Teaching of Thinking Skill

Subject:Standard:

Grade:

Topic:

Big Idea:

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:Motivational

Mind Set:

Skill Description:

Menu of Operations:

InstructionalStrategy:

Assessment:

Reflection:

Through Emotions get Their Attention

What Standard Requires

“How-to” Steps for Students

“Process asContent”

Judgement ofProduct or Performance

Student Commenton Process

TalkThrough

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College and Career Ready

Specifically, College & Career Ready means, in the words of the CCSS, that students demonstrate independence.

Students can, without significant scaffolding, comprehend and evaluate complex texts across a range of types and disciplines, and they can construct effective arguments and convey intricate or multifaceted information. Likewise, students are able independently to discern a speaker’s key points, request clarification, and ask relevant questions. They build on others’ ideas, articulate their own ideas, and confirm they have been understood. Without prompting, they demonstrate command of standard English and acquire and use a wide-ranging vocabulary. More broadly, they become self-directed learners, effectively seeking out and using resources to assist them, including teachers, peers, and print and digital reference materials.

What Does It Look Like in the Workplace?

To succeed in the 21stCentury, in college and in careers, to

be self-reliant, self-directed and independent, students need to be able to do the kind of macro-skills noted explicitly and implicitly in the new national standards. Describe Specifics!

☐ Solve problems

☐ Manage oneself

☐ Adapt to change

☐ Analyze/conceptualize

☐ Reflect on /improve performance

☐ Communicate

☐ Work in teams

☐ Create / innovate / critique

☐ Engage in learning throughout life

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