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Review research-based techniques to help eliminate the "blank stare."
Every teacher has experienced it at one time or another, most likely on a daily basis. When you ask students an open-ended question that requires critical thinking the students aren’t waving their hands in the air or blurting out answers. Instead, they’re looking at you with blank stares. The more you encourage your students to think, the more confused the students become and their stare just intensifies.
You are not alone dealing with the blank stare. It’s not something new either; students have been giving teachers that empty look since teachers began asking them to think for themselves.
Former teacher, professor and author Stanley Pogrow, Ed.D, decided to try to understand why students stare when they are asked to think critically and abstractly. Over 20 years ago he developed the Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills for Educationally Disadvantaged Students program to explore the effects of providing an intensive conversation environment as a substitute for supplemental drill and test prep.
Inside the School is offering a Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills for Educationally Disadvantaged Students seminar to address the blank stare. Presenter Stanley Pogrow, Ed.D, will discuss how to encourage students to think beyond the obvious and move their questions and answers from recall to analysis. His research of 2,600 schools showed that with the right type of engaging and consistent conversation, the blank stares disappear and students can participate in thought-provoking discussions.
In Developing Higher Order Thinking Skills for Educationally Disadvantaged Students you will be able to:
- Learn why students seem to not understand what it means to think or understand how to use and generalize ideas
- Learn to develop thinking skills via key conversation and questioning techniques, and why approaches to develop such skills have historically not been effective with students born into poverty
- What you as a teacher and school can do to overcome the blank stare and develop your students’ ability to spontaneously engage in higher order thinking
- Know how, and under what conditions, thinking skills enhance content learning
Who should attend?
- Teachers
- Teaching Assistants
- Administrators
- Title I Staff
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About the Presenter:
Stanley Pogrow is a professor Emeritus of education at the University of Arizona and a professor of Educational Leadership at San Francisco State University. Dr. Pogrow specializes in advanced forms of teaching and learning to reduce the achievement gap. He is the author of more than 120 articles and 5 books, including: Teaching Content Outrageously: How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning, Grades 4-12 (Jossey Bass). He is the developer of the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) project for Title I and LD students that has been adopted in 2600 schools nationally. He is also a very dynamic speaker.
Pogrow earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University, an M.B.A from Bernard Baruch University and his B.S. from the City College of New York.
Pogrow earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University, an M.B.A from Bernard Baruch University and his B.S. from the City College of New York.
Video Presentation Date/Time:
This 75-minute video seminar will be available anytime on-demand between September 16, 2010 and September 22, 2010.
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An Inside the School online seminar is delivered entirely over the Internet. No telephone connection is needed. You simply connect to a private link that will be emailed to you and access the seminar online through your computer. The seminar is presented in a special browser window that features a slide show presentation in one panel and sound and playback controls in another panel.
The seminar can be viewed on a single computer screen or be projected onto a larger one for a group setting.
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What is included in the $249 registration price?
All seminars are priced per school, not per person. Yes, you read that correctly – your entire school can receive this great training for one flat low price!
The registration price includes access to the seminar and useful handouts that you can copy and distribute to all the teachers at your school.
And not only that, but because we understand the chaotic schedules teachers often endure, we leave the seminar link up for one full week, so you can access it at your convenience. You can watch it during your preparation hours at school or even from your own home.
CDs and transcripts of the program are also available for purchase.
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