Progression of Learning Across the Career
Advances Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Skills
Exploring & Aspiring
Applies *critical thinking skills to: (a) understand the complexities of an educational topic from multiple perspectives; and (b) generate interdisciplinary/diverse solutions.
Preparing
Plans opportunities for students to: (a) analyze; (b) pose higher-order questions; (c) discuss problems from multiple perspectives; and (d) convey their ideas and/or solutions through product and/or process.
Emerging
Provides opportunities for students to: (a) analyze; (b) pose higher-order questions; (c) discuss problems from multiple perspectives; and (d) convey their ideas and/or solutions through product and/or process.
Developing
Facilitates individual and cooperative learning tasks to promote critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including student-generated questioning and risk-taking.
Mastering
Facilitates individual/cooperative interdisciplinary learning tasks and measures student ability to: (a) analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the complexities of a topic from multiple perspectives; and (b) generate solutions using interdisciplinary perspectives.
Leading
Provides leadership, training, mentoring, resources, and supports for teachers and others
in the larger professional community on:
in the larger professional community on:
how to advance and measure student ability to use critical thinking skills to: (a) analyze, evaluate, and synthesize the complexities of a topic from multiple perspectives; and (b) generate solutions using interdisciplinary perspectives.