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b. According to Dr. Brian Ray (2011). Students are engaged in social and educational activities.

a. The course content I would use this strategy for would be in Social Studies. However, this concept could be applied to any area that would be taught in the eighth grade.

Teaching higher order thinking skills is not a recent need. It is apparent that students, at all levels of education, are lagging in problem-solving and thinking skills. Fragmentation of thinking skills, however, may be the result of critical thinking courses and texts. Every course, especially in content subjects, students should be taught to think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate.

Assessment: This gives you a baseline of what the students know at the beginning of the book about immigration and can be used to compare with what they have learned by the end of the book.

With its charts, graphs, and political cartoons, on the surface the Document Based Question (DBQ) is certainly more visually appealing than a standard multiple-choice assessment or traditional instructional strategy. However just how effective and authentic is the DBQ? What rationale do teachers, school districts, and state departments of education have for choosing the DBQ as an integral part of the social studies curriculum? What sort of psychological and social foundations of curriculum are rooted in the DBQ? A review of published literature regarding the DBQ provides some insight into these questions.

This test/quiz would give me an indication of the comprehension level regarding the lesson over the southern colonies. These questions cover all of the southern colonies; hence giving me feedback as to whether the students fully understand the main ideas/concepts regarding the southern colonies. If the students perform well enough on this assessment we would move on to the next lesson. However, if the students performed poorly I would need to go back and cover the topics again as well as reassess their knowledge on these topics before moving on to the next lesson or giving an exam over the unit. This test/quiz is a great way to gauge how well I did at teaching the lesson on the southern colonies. If students do poorly, then I must reassess

c. This shift in the increase in responsibility is a huge contrast to high school teacher being responsible for keeping student responsible for their own assignment.

C. Inferential Questions (“higher-order thinking” within the text). Construct a series of inferential questions (basic questions at the level of

The teacher has designed her own unit assessments based on the tests in the curriculum resource section. I have designed a multiple choice pre-assessment with the help of my mentor teacher to check for understanding at the beginning of the unit. While these tests are often overused, I know it is one of the easiest ways to gather information about prior knowledge quickly. The mentor teacher told me three of the students studied Early American History in the after school gifted program last year. I expect their pre-test scores will reflect this prior

Some of the questions on the tests themselves are questions that only specific students will be able to answer, and that does nothing for the students who don’t think the same way as the students who do know the answers. The tests are also ineffective because the tests are made without any teacher’s input. The teachers should be able to help create these tests because they know what the students should have learned throughout the course of the year. Teachers, would then not feel the need to be “teaching to the tests” they can split the time up evenly between all subjects. To create these tests no teachers were even asked to help, “Then, instead of asking educators how they could help with the transition, they slammed the door in the educators’ faces and wrote standards and tests that have locked the sterile 19th Century view of teaching even more rigidly in place” (Strauss).

Standardized testing is a crucial part of today’s federal education structure; one that is both highly supported and criticized at all levels. The main point of this roundtable, and the chosen excerpts from the authors on the subject, is to discern and debate both the necessity of and the role that multiple choice testing plays in teaching history. This subject is relevant to us as history teachers because it opens up the floor for discussions about the need to either continue, reform, or completely scrap multiple choice testing from the history standard of secondary education in today’s society.

b. It’s useful when students want to do a compare and contrast to the theory they are studying. It gives students various perspectives to view an issue.

Critical thinking is a significant and essential topic in recent education. The strategy of critical thinking skills helps identify areas in one's courses as the suitable place to highlight, expand and use some problems in exams that test students' critical thinking skills.

5. Thinking critically-.—I would like to us this skill every day in my life as well as the work I will do for NCU. I would like to use a thinking website to challenge my brain.

• Professors often use questions or class discussion to enhance critical thinking skills. Attending class can be an opportunity for you to engage the material with the guidance of the professor and the help of your classmates. A professor may pose a question or lead a discussion in class that directs you to make