Please note: Critical Thinking FINAL EXAM has been moved to MONDAY, April 29.
MONDAY: Today we began our study of "Making Judgment Calls." To introduce this topic, the students worked in small groups to discuss a couple of questions which required them to make judgment calls. After their small group discussions, we had a large class discussion about each of the questions to help the students begin to understand how often they make judgment calls each day. Next, I wrote the following notes on the board which I discussed with the students:
Making Judgment Calls
1. WHAT IS A JUDGMENT?
A decision, opinion, or conclusion about something or someone
2. IS JUDGING GOOD OR BAD?
Judging is GOOD for Critical Thinking ("Evaluation")
Judging is BAD for Mindfulness (requires being "Non-judgmental")
Therefore, Judging is an example of a PARADOX (something seemingly contradictory)
3. WHAT IS A JUDGMENT CALL?
When you behave based on a judgment you have made about something or someone
TUESDAY: After today's bell ringer exercise, I reviewed with the students the answers to yesterday's questions I wrote on the board. Then, we continued our study by addressing the following question:
"What determines how we choose to behave?"
To answer this question, I showed the following video clip: Thinking Fast and Slow
We discovered that we have two systems in our brain:
SYSTEM 1 ----------------------------------------------------SYSTEM 2
Impulsive Thoughtful
Automatic Deliberate
Intuitive Calculating
* The relationship between these 2 systems in our brain determines how we behave.
To further understand how to make good judgment calls, the students began reading, annotating and answering the practice problems for Lesson 17: Making Judgment Calls.
Homework: Finish reading, annotating and completing the practice problems for Lesson 17.
WEDNESDAY: After completing the bell ringer, the students and I discussed what they annotated from last night's reading, and we went through the practice problems. To complete this lesson, the students were given a worksheet (see below) to complete as their study guide for this lesson.
Homework: Complete the study guide for Lesson 17.
THURSDAY: After going over the student responses to the questions on the Lesson 17 worksheet, we moved on to Lesson 18: Explanation or Argument? (see below). We read and discussed this lesson as well as the practice problems. The students also worked to create an outline of this lesson. Whatever was not finished during class was assigned as homework.
Homework: Finish reading, annotating and answering the practice problem, AND THEN complete the Lesson 18 outline.
This week's BELL RINGERS:
Monday: Correct the grammar.
1. if your going to the Library please take home a copy of same song a poem for me
2. the twentieth century has brung forth many exciting discoveries as well as terrible disasters
Tuesday: Correct the grammar.
1. please lie rafaels coat on the radiator to dry
2. yes i have wrote a thank-you note to amandas parents
Wednesday: Correct the grammar.
1. steve shaked joe awake and said lets get moms breakfast ready
2. becky rose her hand and said i have to many mistakes
Thursday: Correct the grammar.
1. if you give the kitten to carmen and i well see that its given a good home
2. the stingrays leopards pups and eagles will still play baseball however
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