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“Fostering Divergent Thinking as One Method to Enhance Student Creativity.”
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Model Teaching Quick Courses are cost-effective, quick PD for teachers with action items, ready-to-go resources, and specific content that gets straight to the point. Our concise, in-depth lessons focus on a narrow topic that provides a holistic presentation of key concepts you can learn and be ready to implement in one hour or less. You can choose to watch the video lesson, read the downloadable article lesson, or both, giving you the flexibility to continue your professional learning in the format of your choice. While perfect for individual learning, these courses are also great for PLCs and other school-related staff development, training, and self-paced online instruction.
Divergent Thinking – Lesson
INTRODUCTION
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Fostering Divergent Thinking as One Method to Enhance Student Creativity
This is a downloadable copy of your Model Teaching Quick Course. You may either watch the video presentation of this lesson or download the text-version here.
This downloadable text version is designed to help support PD for PLCs and other school-related staff development and training and contains the exact content found within the video lesson above.
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“Collaborative Learning Models in the Classroom (8 Hours)”
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Section 1 Reflection:
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Putting it all Together
Further Reading
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Course-Aligned Resources Included with the Course:
This course provides 27 course-aligned resources provided throughout the course. These resources include, planning tools, student-facing resources, lesson plan templates and are designed to allow teachers to easily take the course concepts and apply them in their own classrooms. Samples are provided for reference, and resources are editable for customization where needed.
- Student Grouping Template
- Student Grouping Template-SAMPLE
- Student Grouping Cards
- Group Discussion Notes Template
- Group Discussion Notes Template-SAMPLE
- Group Presentation Planner
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- Think-Pair-Share Worksheet
- Think-Pair-Share Worksheet-SAMPLE
- Hot Seat Question Planner
- Hot Seat Question Planner-SAMPLE
- Jigsaw Worksheet
- Jigsaw Worksheet-SAMPLE
- Pyramid Analysis Worksheet
- Pyramid Analysis Worksheet-SAMPLE
- Common Collaborative Models Guide
- Questioning Planner
- Questioning Planner-SAMPLE
- Sample Prompts to Promote Engagement
- Academic Progress Tracker
- Academic Progress Tracker-SAMPLE
- Academic Collaboration Rubric
- Collaborative Learning Plan
- Collaborative Learning Plan-SAMPLE
- Effectiveness Rubric
- Implementation Observation Checklist
- Implementation Observation Checklist-SAMPLE
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Effectiveness Rubric
Use this effectiveness rubric to help you analyze your implementation plan.
How to Use: Review this rubric after your implementation of the lesson content. Determine how well you met the standards for each criterion to self- assess your level of proficiency in implementing the course ideas
Implementation Observation Checklist
This checklist can be provided to your administrator or colleague to help provide an observation and feedback of your lesson after implementing the lesson ideas. You may also use it yourself as a self- reflection tool.
How to Use: Take this checklist with you during the implementation observation. Check each component that was visible within the lesson and provide feedback on areas of strength and areas for continued improvement.
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