Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use provided prompts specific to cognitive engagement to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
• Design mini lessons that include activities from the understand, analyze, evaluate and create levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised.
• Create student exercises that include opportunities for student movement and collaboration.
• Develop strategies for teaching the common language of a thinking classroom and media literacy.
• Analyze, in writing, teacher practices in a thinking classroom using high-level cognitive engagement strategies.