This presentation describes the mission of the PAT program and explains the thinking skills that are taught and the focus of the program

1. PAT Curriculum Night
October 2010
General Program
Overview

2. PAT Program
Mission Statement
Recognizing that children are our
greatest resource, the mission of the
Program for the Academically
Talented is to promote awareness of
the unique social, emotional, and
intellectual needs of gifted and
talented students and to impact the
development of appropriate services
to meet these needs.

3. PAT Class Focuses
on Teaching Students
to THINK WELL

4. Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and
evaluating thinking with a view to improving
it. It is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-
monitored and self-correcting.
They will learn…

5. Critical Thinking
Intellectual Traits
•Fairmindedness
•Intellectual Humility
•Intellectual Courage
•Intellectual Integrity
•Intellectual Empathy
•Intellectual Independence
•Intellectual Perseverance
•Confidence in Reason
Standards:
Clarity, Accuracy, Relevancy, Logical, Fairness,
Precision, Significance, Depth, and Breadth.
www.criticalthinking.org

6. Other Critical Thinking Strategies
Bloom’s Taxonomy
deBono’s 6 Thinking Hats

7. By doing…
Deducibles
Peter Puzzlemaker
Number Circuits

8. Deductive Thinking:
using a sequential order to
analyze, evaluate, eliminate and
draw conclusions.
They will learn…

9. By doing…
Logic Decimal Number Puzzle
Grid Logic
Quotation Quizzlers

10. Creativity is…
• the ability to imagine or invent something new
• the ability to generate new ideas by combining,
changing, or reapplying existing ideas
• an attitude
• a process
They will learn…

11. Draw Starts
By doing…

12. By doing…
Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Magnify, minify
Put to other uses
Eliminate, elaborate
Reverse. rearrange

13. Problem Solving
• process that uses both critical and creative
thinking together
• a variety of approaches to solve problems
• develops thoughtful questions
• plans, organizes, implements, evaluates,
and presents solutions
They will learn…

14. CPS
SPS
By doing…

15. Plexers
By doing…
K K
C C
U U
T T
S S
WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
Red Herrings & How
Comes
His stealing
made his
parents proud.
They did not
think of him as
a thief.
How Come?

16. Leadership
• effectively influences group interaction
• contributes ideas for group consideration
• moves group towards completion of goals
They will learn…

17. By doing…
Build - A - Leader
Getting to Know You

18. Progress Assessment
PAT student progress is assessed in the following
areas:
• Critical thinking
• Creative thinking
• Problem solving
• Leadership
4 = Outstanding 3 = Strong 2 = Developing 1 = Unsatisfactory
Progress reported to
parents
at the end of each
semester.

19. Web 2.0

20. Be an Advocate for your child.
Texas Association for
the Gifted and Talented
www.txgifted.org
National Association for
the Gifted and Talented
www.nagc.org