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Announcing our Second Annual Summer Workshop:
Integrating Critical Thinking into Your Courses

TILT announces its second annual summer workshop, which will be held Tuesday, June 2nd, from 9:00 to 4:00 in the Great Hall in the Institute for Learning and Teaching (801 Oval Drive, Room 200). The workshop is intended for instructors who wish to integrate critical thinking into their courses. Workshop participants should bring a course syllabus or course assignment to the workshop. The workshop will include presentations, panel discussions, group work, and general discussions. The workshop is limited to 40 participants and is intended for members of the CSU community who are primary or co-instructors in a course. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. There is no charge for the workshop.

2009 Workshop Materials

• Agenda (PDF)
• Handouts
  • What is Critical Thinking? What are the Skills Involved? (PDF)
  • Bloom's Taxonomy—Old and New
  • Concept Map [Assessment Rubric]
  • Washington State Guide to Rating Critical & Integrative Thinking (PDF)
  • Critical, Innovative, and Creative Thinking Rubric (CICTR) developed at CSU since the 2008 Summer Conference (PDF)
  • Other rubrics and materials developed at CSU after the 2008 Summer Conference
• Readings
  • Critical Thinking
    • Beyer, Barry K. (2008). What Research Tells Us about Teaching Thinking Skills. The Social Studies 99(5), 196-201.
    • Brown, J. S., A. P. Collins, and P. Duguid. (1989). Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. Educational Researcher 18(1): 32-42.
    • King, P.M. and, K.S. Kitchener (1994). Developing Reflective Judgment, Jossey-Bass Publications, San Francisco
    • Krathwohl, David R. (Autumn, 2002). A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview. Theory into Practice, Vol. 41, No. 4, Revising Bloom's Taxonomy, pp. 212-218.
    • McPeck, J.E. (1990). Teaching Critical Thinking: Dialogue and Dialectic. Routledge, New York
    • Sullivan, W.M., M.S. Rosin, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2008). A New Agenda for Higher Education: Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (2008)
    • West, Daniel C., J. Richard Pomeroy, Jeanny K. Park, et al. (2000). Critical Thinking in Graduate Medical Education: A Role for Concept Mapping Assessment? JAMA, 284(9); pp. 1105-1110.
    • TILT Teaching Tip:: "Bloom's Taxonomy: Testing beyond Rote-Memory" by Dr. Sara Rathburn.
  • Graphic Organizers and Instructional Strategies
    • Marzano, R.J. (2007). The art and science of teaching: A comprehensive framework for effective instruction. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
    • Marzano, R.J., Pickering, D.J., & Pollock, J.E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. (and the companion, 2001, Handbook)
  • Implications of brain research for teaching:
    • Small, G. & Vorgan, G. (2008). iBrain: Surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind. New
      York: HaperCollins Publishers.
• Panel Discussions
  • TILT 2009 Critical Thinking Workshop - What is Critical Thinking?
  • TILT 2009 Critical Thinking Workshop - Panel Discussion: Why Incorporate Critical Thinking into Your Courses?

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  About the Summer Conference and Workshop

  TILT held its first Summer Conference on Learning, Teaching, and Critical Thinking on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20th and 21st, 2008. The conference theme, "Integrating Critical Thinking into Your Courses," called attention to the central importance of providing opportunities for students to think critically about the information, ideas, and arguments they encounter in their courses.

  The pre-conference workshop, held on Tuesday, provided opportunities for more than 40 instructors to integrate critical thinking activities into their courses. The workshop was directed by William Condon, from Washington State University, who led WSU’s highly successful Critical Thinking Project. Dr. Condon also delivered the keynote address to open the conference.

  The conference, held on Wednesday from 9:00 to 5:00, addressed strategies for using critical thinking to support student learning and engagement. More than 150 instructors participated in the conference.

  Due to budget limitations, the 2009 Conference has been cancelled. We are, however, conducting the workshop (see above). In spring 2010, we will provide information on this page about the 2010 conference. If you have questions or suggestions for the conference, please contact us at TILT@ColoState.edu or call (970) 491-3132.