1. Cognitive Apprenticeship: A Roadmap for Critical Thinking
Ashley Sherrill

2. Cognitive Apprenticeship
Opening Questions:
What is Critical Thinking?
What do we want our students to do when thinking critically?

3. Objectives
Describe the steps of the Cognitive Apprenticeship process on a planning aid for your reference.
Determine how to apply Cognitive Apprenticeship for critical thinking in your classes.

4. … On Three, Follow Me

5. Teaching Clapped Rhythm Named Motions Small Sections Coaching Practice
Fun!

6. Fluid vs Crystalized Intelligence Horne & Cattell (1966)

7. Cognitive Apprenticeship
Collins, Brown, and Newman 1989

8. Transmitting the knowledge required for
Apprenticeship
Transmitting the knowledge required for
expert practice

9. Apprenticeship
Watching
Listening
Experiencing
Experimenting

10. Cognitive Apprenticeship
Makes explicit the implicit thinking processes of the expert so that the novice can begin their development
Components:
Modeling
Scaffolding
Fading
Coaching

11. Stages of Learning The Cognitive Stage The Associative Stage
The Autonomous Stage

12. The Cognitive Stage
Articulating information through lower order thinking tasks on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains.

13. The Associative Stage
Application Attempts
Mistakes

14. The Autonomous Stage
Individual Performance

15. Critical Thinking
The ability to interpret, analyze, synthesize, or evaluate information, issues and ideas and apply creative thought to formulate an opinion, solve a problem or reach a conclusion.

16. Modeling Critical Thinking
What is happening when we think?
How do we evaluate the strength of our thinking processes?

17. Thinking
Whenever we think, we think for a purpose, within a point of view, based on assumptions, leading to implications and consequences. We use data, facts, and experiences, to make inferences and judgments, based on concepts and theories, to answer a question or solve a problem.

18. Intellectual Standards
Clarity
Accuracy
Precision
Relevance
Depth
Logic
Significance
Fairness

19. Scaffold Assignments Analyze Implications Compare/Contrast with Theory
Evaluate Source Information and Conclusions
Explain Information Used to Reach a Conclusion
Identify Thinking Purpose, Point of View, or Assumptions

20. Conclusion