The Handbook for Poor Students, Rich Teaching by Eric Jensen

Author:Eric Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Published: 2019-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 14.2: Assess your knowledge of thinking skills.

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Seek Out Information to Solve a Problem

First, encourage students to become curious learners and seek out relevant information. You can be a great role model for this process. In class every week, share something that fascinated you. If their role model is excited about learning, it will become contagious. Second, help them differentiate between various types of information and how they perceive it. Show them that the source of the material is key to understanding the type of reasoning to apply. The source may be a friend or a scholarly journal. Next, show students how to choose the correct problem to solve or argue. Use the seven-step framework for defining the true problem and honing students’ reasoning skills featured in figure 14.3 (page 150).

To answer question 2, have students refer to the Business Insider infographic, 20 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Your Decisions (visit go.SolutionTree.com/instruction for a link to this infographic). Help them identify their own past biases to get to a clear-thinking pathway. Then, teach the many ways to approach a problem. Make a list of the types of problems to solve, and share how you would use different approaches with each. Model how to approach a problem, and have them use the seven-step framework worksheet to solve a similar problem.

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