Developing Critical, Creative and Collaborative skills

4 Cs
Keys to
21st
Century
Skills
 Collaboration
The learner Instruction
is the and “doing” are of
primary primary import
focus of instruction ant
Structured
approaches
to
Working in a developing
group solution to real-
world
problems

Collaborative Learning
or
Group work activities

Stump your partner

Case study Collaborative Abilities
Think-
pair-share Brainstorming ideas in a Allocating resources
/ Catch-up
Write-pai group and responsibilities
r-share
Fishbowl Decision - making Leading a group
debate
Team based learning Evaluating Managing time Goal setting
Problem-Based learning Delegating Team building Resolving conflicts
Steps that are necessary while designing group
work assignment
 Think about course learning outcomes and
how might address them.
 How group will be organized
 How student learning and group process will
be supported.
 How students will be evaluated.
In the class consider:
 How activity can be introduce
 How group will be formed
 How to ensure that students are productive
 What technology might assist the group work
 What the students can do
Group work Evaluation
 Evaluate students on both their contribution to
group process as well as the final product.
 Create a detail explanation what our
expectation are.
 Provide scores for individual as well as group
 Use rubric
 Incorporate peer and self- assessment at
various milestones.
 Communicate clearly to students at the
beginning how we can calculate their grades.
Managing large Group work project
 Provide opportunities for students to
develop rapport and group.
 Give students time to create group
 Establish ground rules. Provide
 Assign roles to members. enough
 Allow students to rate each other’s Introduce time
the task
quality and quantity of contribution
 Check in with group intermittently
General Strategies to keep in mind when
incorporating group work
 Introduce group work early in the semester to set clear
students expectations.
 Plan for each stage of group work.
 Carefully explain to students how group will operate and
how students will be graded.
 Help students to develop the skills they need to succeed
in going activities.
 Establish ground rules.
 Consider using written contracts.
 Incorporate self and peer assessment for group members
to evaluate their own and others’ contributions
 CRITICAL THINKING

Critical Thinking in the classroom

 Critical thinking is a skill that we can teach to

our students. It draws on other skills, such as
communication and information literacy, to
explore a problem, then analyze, explain and
evaluate it.
 Learning critical thinking leads students to
develop other skills, such as a higher level of
concentration deeper analytical abilities, and
improved thought processing.
 Critical thinking is a literacy that evolves as
Thinking
Abilities

we develop.
Critical

 Today’s students need critical thinking and

problem-solving skills not just to solve the
problems of their current jobs, but to meet the
challenges of adapting to our constantly
changing workforce.
 Develop Critical Thinking By
learning to:

 Use different kinds of reasoning (deductive and inductive, to

understand a situation).
 Analyze complex systems and understand how their
interconnected parts support the systems
 Gather relevant information.
 Ask important questions that clarify points of view and help
solve problems.
 Make decisions by selecting appropriate criteria and
identifying alternatives to make reliable choices.
 Thinking "out-of-the-box", challenging consensus and pursuing
less popular approaches.
Critical thinking is an essential part of creativity because we need
critical thinking to evaluate and improve our creative ideas.

Importance of Developing
Critical Thinking Skills.

Academic Performance: Daily Life:

 Understand the argument and beliefs of
others
 Critically evaluating those argument and
beliefs
 Develop and defined one’s own-supported
argument and beliefs.
 Helps to avoid making foolish
personal decisions.
 Helps to reflect and get deeper
understanding of own and others’
decisions.
 creativity
 Creative thinking is
Improvising
expansive, open-ended a Entertaining
invention and discovery solution others
of possibilities. when
people speak of , “right Overturning
Imagining something
brain” activity, they ideas Creating Designing
most often mean something something
creative thinking.

 Creativity is the ability Brainstorming

ideas
to produce new,
Innovation is the diverse and unique
implementation Problem
of creativity-the ideas' Solving
introduction of a
new idea,
process, or  Creativity that is valued
product. is the ability to come up

Thinking
Creativity
provides the with new and useful
ideas, ideas that serve

Creative
necessary spark

Abilities
to get the ball
rolling. an important need or
creates a new trend that
makes an impact.
Creativity in the classroom
 We are faced with countless
problems in our daily life, and it is  Creativity and Innovation
precisely creative thinking that  Think Creatively
helps us come up with solutions to  Use a wide range of idea creation techniques
these problems.  Create new and worthwhile ideas
 Creativity is not a passive state of  Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own
mind. ideas in order to improve and maximize creative
 We must provide opportunity to our efforts
students to be creative through  Work Creatively with Others
different activities  Develop, implement and communicate new ideas
to others effectively
 Be open and responsive to new and diverse
perspectives.
Negative
Attitude  Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work
and understand the real world limits to adopting
Fear Of Fear Of new ideas
Criticism Failure  View failure as an opportunity to learn
Barriers of  Implement innovations
thinking
Creatively
 Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and
useful contribution to the field in which the
Executive innovation will occur
Following
Stress
Rules

Lack Of
Direction
 communication
Communication is a process whereby information is
enclosed in a package and is channeled and imparted by
a sender to a receiver via some medium. The receiver
then decodes the message and gives the sender a
feedback. All forms of communication require a sender, a
message, and an intended recipient, however the receiver
need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to
communicate at the time of communication in order for
the act of communication to occur.

To build effective Communication Skills students must learn to:

Communicate using digital media and environments to support personal and group
learning.

Share information efficiently and effectively using appropriate digital media and
environments.

Communicate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively to different audiences using
various media and formats.
 Listening  Following Importance of communication
actively conventions
 Analyzing the
situation
 Evaluating Students must be able to effectively analyze
messages and process the overwhelming amount of
communication in their lives today.

Which information sources are accurate and

which are not and how it can be used.
Communication The power of modern media and the ubiquity
abilities of communication technologies in all aspects
of life make teaching strong communication
skills even more important.