THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHING THINKING'S
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010
THINKING–BASED LEARNING

A unique and highly acclaimed summer program for K-12 teachers, college faculty, curriculum developers, staff-development specialists, school and college administrators.

Featuring some of the most knowledgeable leaders in the field of teaching thinking: A unique and highly acclaimed summer program for K-12 teachers, college faculty, curriculum developers, staff-development specialists, school and college administrators.

• ART COSTA
• CAROL McGUINESS
• LANE CLARK
• KHALIL HUSEIN KHALIL
• REBECCA REAGAN
• ROBERT SWARTZ

Located on the Campus of Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA July 2010

The 2010 Summer Institute has two focal points:

• For teachers, it focuses on how to develop and teach lessons, units, and courses across the curriculum that infuse critical and creative thinking skills and important habits of mind into content instruction. Infusing skillful thinking into content instruction enhances deep content understanding, improves thinking, and elevate classroom and test performance There will be a special emphasis in the 2010 institute on how to develop extended curricular units that infuse an appropriate emphasis on thinking tools into the sustained study of important curricular topics.
• For non-teachers, it focuses on and, how adults can improve their thinking skills and mental habits.. The program for adults is based on a successful innovation that applies what we know about teaching skillful thinking in an adult context. The result – what we call “positive thinking”–improves the quality of our lives as adults in the 21st Century.

Choose one or two extended modules (week or week-and-a-half long) and/ or one Saturday module on: Infusing the Teaching of Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction: Blending Thinking Skills and Habits of Mind for Power Learning July 8–16, 2010 (week and a half) Staff-Development Training for Teaching Thinking: Coaching Techniques and Workshop Design July 17, 2010 (one day) Real Thinking/Real Learning in Extended Curricular Units July 19–July 23, 2010 (one week) Positive Thinking: Using Skillful Thinking in Our Lives July 19-July 23, 2010 (one week)

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

The 2010 Summer Institute on Thinking-Based Learning is structured to include a seven-day basic course followed by two parallel week-long programs for different audiences with an additional day-long offering inbetween on Saturday, July 17.

Each offering in the 2010 Summer Institute is structured as an instructional “Module” ranging in length from one day to a full seven days. (Each day runs from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, with a lunch break) Participants can register for the Institute for Module I only, Module II only, Modules III or IV only, or any combination of these.

The faculty in the modules will interweave and interact as they cover the main topics. In addition, there will be time provided in each module for participants to work in special focus groups with only one of the faculty on specialized themes.

These modules are all practice-oriented Opportunity will be provided as the modules progress for participants to plan and develop significant implementations of ideas presented in the modules that can be brought back and tried out in the participant’s educational setting. The faculty will provide support and feedback in that phase of each participant’s work.

FACULTY

Lane Clark, former classroom teacher in Toronto, Canada, and now a worldwide educational consultant on thinking and learning. She is author of two important books on her approach to restructuring extended units in K –12 education: Where Thinking and Learning Meet and Where Assessment Meets Thinking and Learning.

Art Costa, Professor Emeritus of Education, Sacramento State University; former President, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). Co-author of Thinking- Based Learning, Teaching and Assessing Habits of Minds, Assessment in the Learning Organization, Cognitive Coaching, and Techniques for Teaching Thinking; editor of Developing Minds.

Khalil Hussein Khalil, Director of NCTT-UAE, researcher and consultant in the teaching of thinking in the middle east on topics relatted to developing skillful thinking and developing a thinking based curriculum.

Carol McGuinness, Professor of Education, The Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Consultant and researcher on teaching thinking skills, and on reading and thinking. Author of numerous articles in the field.

Rebecca Reagan, Lubbock, Texas Independent School District (retired), specialist on reading, writing, and thinking. Co-author of Thinking-Based Learning, Infusion Lessons: Teaching Critical & Creative Thinking in Language Arts, Grades 5 - 6.

Robert Swartz, Professor Emeritus, U.Mass./Boston, Director, The National Center for Teaching Thinking. Co-author of Thinking-Based Learning, Teaching Thinking: Issues and Approaches, the lesson-design handbook series for the elementary and secondary grades: Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction, and the Infusion Lessons series of three books, Grades 1– 6 in language arts.

ABOUT TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Located in Medford, Massachusetts, a short distance from Boston,Tufts University is one of the major universities in the greater- Boston area. It has a strong liberal arts program as well as a distinguished medical school (located in downtown Boston). The Medford campus boasts of an exceptional college library and athletic facilities while at the same time providing a quiet and quite idyllic setting for college study. It is a short walk from the campus to public transportation making nearby Cambridge, with its own distinguished colleges, and Boston, easily accessible.

LOCATION

The Greater Boston area in Massachusetts is rich in historical, cultural, educational, commercial, and recreational points of interest. Cambridge, Massachusetts, which borders Boston, is well-known as the location of both Harvard University and M. I. T. Boston, itself, is one of the major seaports in the USA, located in the Northeast, 200 miles north of New York City, and has a rich historical past going back to the 17th Century. It houses the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Symphony/Pops, and the Boston Ballet. Cape Cod, a favorite summer resort, as well as the mountains of New Hampshire, are within easy driving distance.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Residential accommodations are available on the Campus of Tufts University. The rate per person for a single room, is $57 per day. The rate per person for a double room is $34 per day. Rates listed are for air-conditioned rooms. Please see reservation form for rates on non-air conditioned rooms. The number of rooms available is limited and rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit, http://www.nctt.net/summerinstitute. to download a Housing Request Form to make accommodation arrangements at Tufts University. If you have questions about your accommodations please contact the Tufts University Conference Bureau via email or 617.627.3568 (phone), 617.627.3856 (fax), conferences@tufts.edu (e-mail). Accommodations are also available at nearby hotels. Rates are generally higher at hotels.

HOUSING REQUEST FORMS

This year we have decided to forgo housing request forms and have you contact Tufts directly if you choose to take advantage of the special rates. We apologize for the misprint in the brochure but are happy that we are saving paper and assisting, however small, in saving a much needed resource, trees...

MODULE ONE

Thursday, Friday, Saturday July 8, 9, 10, continued on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: July 12, 13, 15, 16 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Infusing the Teaching of Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction: Blending Thinking Skills and Habits of Mind for Power Learning

Robert Swartz, Art Costa, Carol McGuinness, Rebecca Reagan

This module will provide participants with a framework for designing and teaching lessons which infuse instruction in specific critical and creative thinking skills into standard content instruction and which also emphasize the development of important mental habits. In the module we develop the concept of skillful thinking as a concept that includes these two components together with teaching students how to guide themselves in doing skillful thinking when it is needed. We argue that this should be a major goal of education, and that when instruction in skillful thinking is infused into content teaching high- performance classrooms result. The thinking skills that will be emphasized include a cluster of analytical thinking skills, as well as critical and creative thinking skills, and effective problem-solving/decision making. Lessons will be demonstrated, sample lessons will be provided, instructional strategies illustrated, and lesson design materials will be made available to the participants. Participants will have opportunities to design their own lessons to implement the ideas being presented in this module. We will:

• Identify thinking skills and habits of mind that are important to help students develop in K-12 and in college instruction
• Develop and use a powerful framework for lesson design that infuses direct instruction in thinking skills and habits of mind into content construction
• Identify and learn how to use instructional tools and strategies that facilitate thinking skill instruction in content lessons (e.g., effective questioning techniques, graphic organizers, thinking strategy “maps,” thoughtful writing templates, metacognitive prompts).

MODULE TWO

Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Staff-Development Training for Teaching Thinking: CoachingTechniques and Workshop Design

Robert Swartz and Rebecca Reagan

This module is designed for participants interested in offering training programs for teachers on the teaching of thinking. Resources for staff development programs on teaching thinking will be introduced and their use illustrated. Participants will have the opportunity to plan their own staff development projects and/or the incorporation of structures that support and sustain on-going staff development on teaching thinking in their schools or school districts. In this module we will:

• Analyze the scope and structure of effective staff development projects utilizing group presentations and follow-up coaching in the light of overall research on school change
• Demonstrate and practice effective coaching techniques
• Develop a framework for planning large-group workshop presentations on teaching thinking.

MODULE THREE

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: July 19–23, 2009 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Real Thinking / Real Learning in Extended Curricular Units Lane Clark, with visiting presentations

Robert Swartz

Thinking and learning are inextricably linked. This module explores how to explicitly teach your students how to think but also, an equally important, how to learn, through the use of a variety of cross grade thinking and learning tools and techniques infused into extended curricular units. When students are provided with a wide repertoire of tools to think in a diversity of ways, AND when they are taught the ways in which thinking tools are layered and framed to ensure rigor and deep thinking, and this is done WITHIN the use of a curriculum-focused learning framework, THEN they become enabled and empowered to stretch their own thinking and learning in our classrooms. In this module you will learn to plan, design, implement, assess and evaluate trulyauthentic learning opportunities that are both thinking-enhanced and that reflect the real world challenges our students will face. You will learn to seamlessly incorporate:

• curriculum-mandated outcomes
• ‘real thinking’ and ‘real learning’ tools and techniques
• strategies based on the latest brain research
• perspectives that speak to multiple intelligences
• the recognition of different learning styles
• a cross-disciplinary inquiry-based structure, and
• thoughtful student self-evaluation into your own educational context for the creation of your own real thinking/real learning curricular units.

MODULE FOUR

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: July 19–23, 2010 9:00 am–4:30 pm

Positive Thinking: Using Skillful Thinking in Our Lives: A program for developing better thinking for adolescents and adults

Khalil Hussein Khalil and Robert Swartz

Often when we hear the term “positive thinking” we expect to learn general guidelines that invite us to look at a situation we are in in a positive way, downplaying or ignoring any obstacles or negative aspects of the situation. Well, this module doesn’t do that. In fact this module shows us how we can develop a more objective and reasonable consideration of both the pros and cons of situations so that we can determine for ourselves what the bes course of action is for us to adopt. In Positive Thinking will learn how to think skillfully by putting various thinking skills like making well-founded predictions of consequences together with important habits of mind like managing impulsivity and listening to others with respect and understanding, and we will apply these techniques in real life situations. In particular, we will learn how to use skills of analysis, critical thinking skills, and creative thinking skills in these everyday contexts. When these skills are put together a person will be able to become a positive thinker who understands problem-situations deeply, becomes aware of all of options and possibilities, and determines the consequences of these options, both good and bad, to decide the best things to do. In this module we will provide a set of tools both relating to thinking skills and to broad mental habits to guide our thinking, help us organize it, and go back and reflect on it. Participants will have a chance to apply these to real situations they face in their lives. Put simply, this module will provide the participants with the beginnings of the wisdom needed to proceed effectively and productively in their daily lives.

SPECIAL EVENTS

In addition to the regular program of modules, certain special events are planned for the 2010 Institute. These include a lesson-design clinic and a special session on the new NCTT diagnostic assessment instrument for determining the level of critical thinking skill a person employs. Each will be offered on selected evenings during the program.

WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT NCTT

“To learn from many of the great leaders in the field of Thinking, Robert Swartz, Art Costa, David Perkins, Carol Mc Guiness, Rebecca Reagan and Alec Fisher, during these summer institutes, has been an amazing journey of discovery both personally and professionally. The workshops are at times challenging and yet hugely rewarding. The learning was immense and the skills that I came away with have changed the way I teach. I stayed at the Tufts University Campus in Boston and although the days were full to the brim with Thinking Based Learning, I still had the warm summer evenings to explore the sights and sounds of beautiful Boston.”

—Del McFarlane-Scott, New Zealand

“ I really enjoyed the program and am able to apply my learning to my classes and in the training teachers programs.”

—Lilian Dabdoub, USA

“ By using the method I learned from the workshop all students participate and when I asked them how class was going they said, ‘We like the way it helps us to think, so the information sticks in our mind.”

—Abeer Al-Khouli, Saudi Arabia

ENROLLMENT PATTERNS

Participants can register for Session I only, Session II only, one offering from Session 3 only, or a combination of these.

COURSE COSTS

The base cost for Module 1 is $1095.

The cost for Module II is $245.

The cost for either Module III or IV is $745.

This includes lunches during the session and module materials. 5% will be discounted for registrations prior to May 1. Enrollment is limited and is on a first-come, first served basis. Modules may be cancelled if enrollment is not adequate. All participants who complete the institute will receive a special certificate. If you would like to receive graduate credits for the institute there will be an additional charge. Those taking courses for credit will be asked to complete a final paper per module. Participants should contact Dr. Robert Swartz (info@nctt.net) for more information about graduate credits. Actual registration for graduate credits will take place at the start of each week of the summer institute. Payment for the credits will be expected at that time and need not be included when you register for the institute. Graduate credits will be granted by Salem State University, in Massachusetts, USA.

Sponsored by The National Center for Teaching Thinking, USA