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Level I Critical Skills Institutes

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Critical Skills Institutes Level I

A Critical Skills Institute is truly an immersion into a Critical Skills Classroom. Under the guidance and leadership of Master Teachers, participating educators experience all dimensions of the model firsthand.

In the Institutes, educators explore problem-based, experiential, collaborative, and standards-driven learning. Over five days, they examine how these methodologies can be successfully integrated, focusing on the role of the teacher in designing curriculum, guiding students, and assessing performance. Participants develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to build and maintain dynamic and responsive classroom exhibitions of learning.

Level I Institutes examine strategies for:

developing the classroom as a collaborative, problem-solving community
using the experiential learning cycle to support student learning
setting and maintaining criteria for quality work
targeting the Critical Skills alongside the curriculum
turning curriculum into different types of problems to solve that provide a meaningful context for learning
using simple performance-based assessment tools
planning and structuring student exhibitions of learning
guiding student reflection and debriefing processes

When?

See event schedule

Where?

Antioch University New England
Keene, NH

Cost?

See event schedule