On what should I focus my attention?
Thinking & Reading & Writing (& Feeling)
The Ninth Grade Learning ExperienceLevels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Crews ♦ WMC
(Without education) (With education)
Why is school important?
Self-Discovery
Abstract World
Essential Knowledge
MUST KNOW
SHOULD KNOW
NICE TO KNOW
Art “educates our feelings”
Stephen Dobyns: “The arts civilize us, not by making us ‘cultured’ but by educating
our feelings, by helping us live in the human community and realizing that others
have interior lives similar to our own.”
(Images carry emotion)
Higher-Order Thinking Skills
What are the four key thinking skills essential to your success?
Abstraction, System Thinking, Experimentation, Collaboration
= Teach your brain how to think
Abstraction
Sensory World
SEETOUCH
TASTESMELL
HEAR
EXPERIENCES
Experimentation
EXPERIENCE
What does it mean?
World of the Imagination
Why is it important?
System Thinking
PatternsThoughts
UNDERSTANDING
Fun Childhood Friends Vacation
Link to the World Around Us
Experimentation
Is it so?
JUDGMENT!Ought I to?
Truth vs. Falsity Value vs. Worthless Right vs. Wrong Reality vs. Fantasy Morality vs. Inhumanity Insight vs. Intuition Objective vs. SubjectiveHappiness vs. Conflict
World of Reason and Rationality
Collaboration
DECISION
World of Communication
The Ninth Grade Learning ExperienceLevels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Built upon Bernard Lonergan's, Integral Cognitional Structure of Truth and Value (Phenomenology and Logic, Toronto Press, 2001) & Robert Reich’s, Education of the Symbolic Analyst (The Work of Nations, Vintage Books, 1992)
EXPERIENCE
UNDERSTANDING
JUDGMENT
EVIDENCE
INQUIRY
SYSTEMS
abstraction collaboration
Data, Senses, Images (Awareness)
Patterns, Thoughts (Intelligence)
Truth vs. Fallacy Value vs. Worthless
Right vs. Wrong Reality vs. Fantasy
Morality vs. Inhumanity Insight vs. Intuition
Objective vs. SubjectiveHappiness vs. Conflict
(Rationality and Responsibility)
DECISION
What?
Is it so?
Ought I to?
system thinking experimentation
Essential Knowledge
What is the moral of the story?
Be aware of who you are and what you do
Seek the Truth
Self-Discovery
What is the moral of the story?
Emotional Intelligence
Self Awareness
Self Regulation
Motivation
Empathy
Social Skill
Personal Edification
A Clear Midnight
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,Night, sleep, death and the stars.
—Walt Whitman