Faculty Critical Thinking Workshop
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This daylong workshop was facilitated past times Brian Barnes of the Foundation for Critical Thinking. Brian Barnes’s destination was to innovate faculty to specific methods that encourage critical thinking skills inwards students in addition to let the faculty to practise using these methods. After Brian’s introduction to the fundamentals of critical thinking, the workshop participants had a conduct a opportunity to role-play inwards modest groups in addition to practise using these skills to analyze readings in addition to part their writing every bit modes of thinking across the curriculum.
The workshop was funded inwards purpose past times a JSRCC Professional Development Grant, a VCCS Paul Lee Professional Development Mini Grant, in addition to a meaning JTCC contribution. The xv JSRCC faculty participants registered for the workshop were selected to airplane pilot these Critical Thinking techniques into at to the lowest degree ane of their Fall 2013 courses in addition to volition have a $750 stipend at the semester’s end, generously provided past times MD Barbara Glenn from Humanities in addition to Social Sciences foundation funds.
The JSRCC faculty who participated in addition to volition endure piloting the Critical Thinking inwards their Fall 2013 courses are:
Beverly Aronowitz, English
Sherry Compton, Respiratory Therapy
Alan Crouch, Automotive Technology
Sarah Jessie, Administration of Justice
Nancy Morrison, Reading
Mark Plume, Sociology
Maria Ramos, English
Jane Rosecrans, English
Stephen Sowulewski, Health
Chris Thomas, History
Wendy Unison-Pace, Practical Nursing
Shalini Upadhyaya, Biology
William Wilson, Health Records Coding
Danette Young, Biology
William Ziegler, English