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Critical Thinking in Education

Schedule

Time

Location

Description

10:00-10:30 Fall/Winter room Registration & refreshments
10:30-10:45 Fall/Winter room

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Welcome
Dr. Meera Mather, Dean, School of Advancement

Opening remarks
Dr. Marilyn Herie, Vice President Academic and Chief Learning Officer

10:45-12:00 Fall/Winter room

Keynote 

Dr. Usha James, The Critical Thinking Consortium
Introduction by Dr. Lukasz Kurowski, Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

12:00-1:00 Fall/Winter room LUNCH
1:00-1:30 Spring room

Session One: Short Talks

A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teaching Language, Deborah Pesikan

Heeding the Call of the Wild, Marc Yamaguchi

1:00-2:00 Summer room

Session Two: Presentations

Effective Teaching: Teaching Content Dialogically, BJ Jumnadass

Perceptions of Empowerment and Reflections on Critical Thinking, Katie Bannon

Critical Thinking Instructional Approaches in Asynchronous Online Discussion Forums, Elaine Marans

2:00-3:00 Fall room
Winter room
Summer room

Session Three: Workshops

The Intersections of Noncognitive and Cognitive Variables in Critical Thinking, Cassandra Poley & Marah Gardner Echavez

Introspective Inquiry: Bridging Critical Thinking & Mindfulness, Eleanor Berenson

How do you feed your Implicit Bias?, Philip Semple

3:00-3:30 Fall/Winter room

Debrief & Closing Remarks

Debrief
Dr. Philip Alalibo, Acting Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr. Lukasz Kurowski, Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Closing remarks 
Dr. Cary DiPetro, Dean, Learning, Teaching and Scholarship

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