• Have you worked with a project in your classroom? Share your experience.
• What was your role as a teacher
?

• Experiences gear to a specific goal or objective.
• Work on long-term challenges that involve real-life problems
• Uses new technologies
• Student's role is collaborative,cooperative
• Students-as-workers and problem solvers
• Teacher's role as a facilitator, a guide
Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/project-based-learning-how-students-learn-teamwork-critical-thinking-and-communication-skills/#ixzz0qwfSZTZI

• What activities do you consider you have done in your class that develop students thinking and creativity?
• What impact do your activities have on your students, regarding long-life learning?
• How do your activities reach out to learners needs?

• Think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate.
• The starting point is a question
• The process is thinking to seek the answer
• Developing skills as: comparing, analyzing, defining, inferring, synthesizing, interpreting, making decisions, reconstructing, self correcting.

CRITICAL THINKING STAGES
6. Master Thinker
5. Advanced Thinker
4. Practicing Thinker
3. Beginning Thinker
2. Challenged Thinker
1. Unreflective Thinker

What stage are you in?
What stage are your students in?

VISION
"Today's graduates need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers, and effective communicators who are proficient in both core subjects and new, twenty-first-century
content and skills," according to Results that Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform , a report issued in March by the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Interpersonal and project-management skills
Research skills
Learning and thinking skills
Life skills
Information and communications-technology literacy skills

Good communicators
Responsible
Self-managers
Great collaborators
Good team partners and leaders

MISSION
Create teams
Introduce a complex entry question
Calendar the project
Provide timely assessments

OBJECTIVE
To collaborate
To think critically
To communicate orally
To communicate by writing
To learn technology
To develop citizenship work in teams take on complex problems present write use technology take on civic and global issues

CHARACTERISTICS
GEOGRAPHY HISTORY CULTURE ECONOMY ?
BORDERS INDUSTRY …… FOUNDATION FOOD……
LAKES, RIVERS,
MOUNTAINS…
WARS…..

INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE
Where are you from?
Have you lived there all your life?
What do you do on the weekends?
What places do turists visit?
VIDEO
INTERNET
PRESENTER
What is the capital?
What states limit with it?
What part of the United
States is it in ?
How is the landscape ?
What do people do ?
What is the typical food?
How do you travel?

The presenter answers the questions in a round table
The questions in papers
Students take turns taking one question and asking it to the presenter

I’m from Texas, and you?
Hi, where are you from?
I’m from
California. I love the beach.
What sports do you practice?

COUNTRY FAIR
A FAMOUS CHARACTER
TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS
ROLE PLAY A SHORT STORY
NEWS ROLE PLAY
FAMOUS RED CARPET
RETELLING A FAIRY TALE
TO SELL A NEW PRODUCT
MUPPET SHOW

How can I apply an oral project planned through critical thinking ideas an actions to broaden my students skills and trigger their thinking ?

To learn more about this:
• www.bnccolomboamericanoarmenia.wordpress.com
• http://www.masternewmedia.org/project-based-learninghow-students-learn-teamwork-critical-thinking-andcommunication-skills/#ixzz0qwfSZTZI
• www.ted.com
• www.readingquest.org
• www.criticalthinking.org