Engage and improve your teaching in both critical thinking skills and self-regulated learning skills as cultural scripts. This course is part 3 of a 3-course program.
The "Teaching Critical Thinking & Self-Regulated Learning Skills" course is an intermediate-level educational program offered by WisconsinX, designed to equip educators and professionals with the knowledge and strategies necessary to foster critical thinking and self-regulated learning in college classrooms and beyond. This comprehensive course delves into the theories, concepts, and practical applications of these essential 21st-century skills, emphasizing their importance across various disciplines and professions.
To fully benefit from this course, students should have completed the following prerequisites:
Additionally, a basic understanding of educational principles and some teaching experience would be beneficial.
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Learn how to implement evidence-based teaching strategies in your university classroom as well as effective methods for assessing teaching and learning. Note: This CIRTL course is hosted by Cornell University on the EdX platform, but content, instruction, and course management are supported by the CIRTL Network.
The Introduction to 21st Century Skills course is for faculty and other postsecondary instructors who want to improve how their students are learning four “21st century skills”, communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and self-motivated learning. This course provides a foundation in instructional design and how these skills are best viewed in cultural terms, with practical tips for how to best design and teach college-level courses and programs that cultivate these complex competencies. This course is part 1 of a 3-course program.
Using coaching approaches in your educational conversations will help you support learners to really maximise their potential, as you become an even more effective and inspiring educator. Over these next four modules, you will become much more familiar with some key coaching principles and skills, and will be equipped to start applying these in your own educational contexts.
In five weeks, we explore some of the major challenges, approaches and strategies for addressing pressing, complex socio-environmental issues in the classroom, using critical action as a pedagogical perspective. Optionally, you will be able to collaborate with peers from around the world to design actual critical action curriculum.
