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PAT Curriculum NightOctober 2010
General Program
Overview
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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.
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PAT Class Focuseson Teaching Students
to THINK WELL
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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…
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Critical ThinkingIntellectual 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
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Other Critical Thinking Strategies
Bloom’s Taxonomy
deBono’s 6 Thinking Hats
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By doing…
Deducibles
Peter Puzzlemaker
Number Circuits
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Deductive Thinking:using a sequential order to
analyze, evaluate, eliminate and draw conclusions.
They will learn…
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By doing…
Logic Decimal Number Puzzle
Grid Logic
Quotation Quizzlers
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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…
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Draw StartsBy doing…
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Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Magnify, minify
Put to other uses
Eliminate, elaborate
Reverse. rearrange
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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…
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CPS
SPSBy doing…
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Plexers
By doing…
K K
C C
U U
T T
S SWORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
Red Herrings & How Comes
His stealing made his
parents proud. They did not
think of him as a thief.
How Come?
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Leadership
• effectively influences group interaction• contributes ideas for group consideration• moves group towards completion of goals
They will learn…
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By doing…
Build - A - Leader
Getting to Know You
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Progress AssessmentPAT 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.
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Web 2.0
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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