This week I was in the metro-Detroit area giving a workshop at the St. Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency in Maryville, MI. The one-day session was sponsored by the Successful Practices Network.
We focused on techniques for fostering student skills in higher-order thinking and problem solving. Participants included high school teachers and administrators. I used my TurningPoint audience response system and posed questions which probed participant expectations of students and instructional strategies. The system allows me to capture participant thinking and use it foster some lively discussion and reflections. You have to model what you preach, so we worked through some higher-order thinking and problem solving ourselves. Participant feedback on workshop strengths included:
“Practical strategies that can be immediately implemented.”
“The way Peter took us through the response process modeled the struggle our students would go though in class.”
“He challenged our thinking with the data we submitted with the response units.”
“We convinced ourselves that our students / all students can think and perform at higher level.”
Updated handout with audience response data Download pappas-handout-stclair.pdf 1.8 MB pdf.
For more information on TurningPoint contact Mike Venrose at mvenrose@turningtechnologies.com
