Fall 2016 Critical Thinking Workshop
Fall 2016 Critical Thinking Workshop:
Mentoring Minds
As outlined in the UHD Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), each semester, a critical thinking
workshop is held for faculty and co-curricular development. The fall 2016 Critical
Thinking Workshop: Mentoring Minds was held on November 4, 2016. The workshop focused
on helping faculty identify instructional strategies and tools which support deliberate
instruction in areas of critical thinking, analysis and inquiry, and creativity.
Content included: multi-disciplinary strategies for helping students enhance their
critical thinking skills, transparency and deliberate instruction, designing assignment
prompts which support critical thinking, and utilizing rubrics as an instructional
strategy to guide students in thinking about the quality of their learning and mastery
of academic material.
Workshop Agenda
Helping Students CARE: Commonplace, Authority, Reason and Experience in Developing
Student Critical Thinking - Dr. Michael Connell
A+CE SA Assessment Guide
Rubrics as an Instructional Strategy
Critical Thinking Rubrics
Transparency and Problem Solving: The UHD Experience - Dr. John Kelly
Assignment Guide