21st Century Skills

Week 2

Objectives I-11 Provides opportunities for creativity/

innovation, critical thinking and problem solving 

 

I-11 Observable EvidenceEffective Teacher Behaviors

Teacher structures lesson so students demonstrate significant originality and include diverse perspectives.

Teacher designs tasks that require students to acquire and evaluate knowledge, reason effectively, and analyze and evaluate evidence before making judgments or decisions (i.e., opportunities to grow students‘ problem-solving skills).

I-11 Observable EvidenceEffective Student Behaviors

Students approach tasks and responses with evidence of divergent thinking, original thought, or some connection to ideas and issues beyond classroom.

Students construct viable arguments and critique others‘ reasoning by responding to diverse perspectives, analyzing similarities and differences, justifying conclusions, and discerning correct logic from flawed reasoning.

Students are creative problem solvers.

Students apply what they know in discipline to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace.

Students reason abstractly and quantitatively by making sense of quantities and relationships, creating coherent representations of problems, and knowing and using different properties of items

Inquiry QuestionsUse as a(n):

Exit ticket Individual assessment Whole class debate Small group discussion

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Putting it all TogetherHow could you create more opportunities for your students to use creative problem solving in your classroom? Write and teach a lesson meeting this goal. After teaching the lesson reflect:

• How did it go? • Will you use it again? • How would you adjust it for future use?

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