11. Critical Thinking Skills enables you to. . . This skill. . . Arrange information Organizing Store and retrieve information Remembering Formulate questions, collect data Information Gathering Define problems, set goals, select information Focusing
12. Critical Thinking Skills cont. Adapted from Robert J. Marzano, Ronald S. Brandt, Carolyn Sue Hughes, Beau Fly Jones, Barbara Z. Presseisen, Stuart C. Rankin, and Charles Suhor, Dimensions of Thinking: A Framework for Curriculum and Instruction (Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1988) 66, 70-112. Copyright 1988 by ACSD. Reprinted with permission of the publishers. enables you to. . . This skill. . . Assess the quality of ideas Evaluating Combine, summarize, and restructure information Integrating Use prior knowledge Generating Clarify existing information Analyzing
27. The Process of Listening You get the stimuli You focus on stimuli You attach meanings to stimuli You integrate the message into your frame of reference You judge the merits of the information You decide what to do with the information Receive Select Interpret Understand Evaluate Resolve
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31. A Model of Criticism This model of criticism is adapted from Beverly Whitaker Long, “Evaluating Performed Literature,” Studies in Interpretation , vol.2, eds. Esther M. Doyle and Virginia Hastings Floyd (Amsterdam: Podopi, 1977) 267-81. See also her earlier article: Beverly Whitaker, “Critical Reasons and Literature in Performance,” The Speech Teacher 18 (November 1969): 191-93. Long attributes this three-part model of criticism to Arnold Isenberg, “Critical Communication,” The Philosophical Review (July 1949): 330-44. Judgments: statements of approval or disapproval, like or dislike Reasons: Justifications offered for judgments Norms: Standards of relative worth or goodness
38. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Abraham H. Maslow, Motivation and Personality , 2 nd ed. (New York: Random, 1970) 35-47. Self-Actualization Needs Esteem Needs Belonging and Love Needs Safety Needs Physiological Needs