GENERATING

ORAL PROJECTS

THROUGH

CRITICAL

THINKING

REFLECTING• Have you worked with a project in your classroom? Share your experience.

• What was your role as a teacher ?

1.ORAL PROJECTS • Experiences gear to a specific goal or objective.

• Work on long-term challenges that involve real-life problems

• Uses new technologies

• Student's role is collaborative,cooperative

• Students-as-workers and problem solvers

• Teacher's role as a facilitator, a guideLink: http://www.masternewmedia.org/project-based-learning-how-students-learn-teamwork-critical-thinking-and-communication-skills/#ixzz0qwfSZTZI

REFLECTION• What activities do you consider you have done in your class that develop students thinking and creativity?

• What impact do your activities have on your students, regarding long-life learning?

• How do your activities reach out to learners needs?

2. CRITICAL THINKING • Think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate.

• The starting point is a question• The process is thinking to seek the answer

• Developing skills as: comparing, analyzing, defining, inferring, synthesizing, interpreting, making decisions, reconstructing, self correcting.

3. CRITICAL THINKING TEACHERS

CRITICAL THINKING STAGES6. Master Thinker

5. Advanced Thinker

4. Practicing Thinker

3. Beginning Thinker

2. Challenged Thinker

1. Unreflective Thinker

REFLECTIONWhat stage are you in?

What stage are your students in?

3. STRATEGIC PLANNING VISION

"Today's graduates need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers, and effective

communicators who are proficient in both core subjects and new, twenty-

first-century content and skills," according to Results that Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform, a report issued in March by the Partnership for

21st Century Skills.

Learning and thinking skills

Information and communications-technology literacy skills

Life skills

Interpersonal and project-management skills

Research skills

Good communicato

rs

Great collaborators

Responsible

Self-managers

Good team partners and leaders

MISSION

Create teams

Introduce a complex entry question

Calendar the project

Provide timely assessments

To collaborate work in teamsTo think critically take on complex problems

To communicate orally presentTo communicate

by writingTo learn technology

To develop citizenship

write

use technology

take on civic and global issues

OBJECTIVE

4. THE 50 STATES PROJECT

QUESTION

CHARACTERISTICS GEOGRAPHY HISTORY CULTURE ECONOMY ?

BORDERS

LAKES, RIVERS, MOUNTAINS…

FOUNDATION

WARS…..

FOOD…… INDUSTRY ……

INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE

VIDEO INTERNET PRESENTER

Where are you from?Have you lived there all your life?

What do you do on the weekends?

What places do turists visit?

What is the typical food?

What is the capital?

What states limit with it?

What part of the United States is it

in ?How is the landscape ?

What do people do ?

How do you travel?

20 QUESTION ACTIVITY

The questions in papers

Students take turns taking one

question and

asking it to the

presenter

The presenter answers the

questions in a round table

CONVERSATIONHi, where are you from?

I’m from Texas, and you?

I’m from California. I love the beach.

What sports do you practice?

COUNTRY FAIRA FAMOUS CHARACTER

TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONSROLE PLAY A SHORT STORY

NEWS ROLE PLAY FAMOUS RED CARPET

RETELLING A FAIRY TALETO SELL A NEW PRODUCT

MUPPET SHOW

How can I apply an oral project planned through critical thinking ideas an actions to broaden my

students skills and trigger their thinking ?

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