On what should I focus my attention?

Thinking & Reading & Writing (& Feeling)

The Ninth Grade Learning ExperienceLevels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Crews ♦ WMC

(Without education) (With education)

Why is school important?

Self-Discovery

Abstract World

Essential Knowledge

MUST KNOW

SHOULD KNOW

NICE TO KNOW

Art “educates our feelings”

Stephen Dobyns: “The arts civilize us, not by making us ‘cultured’ but by educating

our feelings, by helping us live in the human community and realizing that others

have interior lives similar to our own.”

(Images carry emotion)

Higher-Order Thinking Skills

What are the four key thinking skills essential to your success?

Abstraction, System Thinking, Experimentation, Collaboration

= Teach your brain how to think

Abstraction

Sensory World

SEETOUCH

TASTESMELL

HEAR

EXPERIENCES

Experimentation

EXPERIENCE

What does it mean?

World of the Imagination

Why is it important?

System Thinking

PatternsThoughts

UNDERSTANDING

Fun Childhood Friends Vacation

Link to the World Around Us

Experimentation

Is it so?

JUDGMENT!Ought I to?

Truth vs. Falsity Value vs. Worthless Right vs. Wrong Reality vs. Fantasy Morality vs. Inhumanity Insight vs. Intuition Objective vs. SubjectiveHappiness vs. Conflict

World of Reason and Rationality

Collaboration

DECISION

World of Communication

The Ninth Grade Learning ExperienceLevels of Higher-Order Thinking Skills

Built upon Bernard Lonergan's, Integral Cognitional Structure of Truth and Value (Phenomenology and Logic, Toronto Press, 2001) & Robert Reich’s, Education of the Symbolic Analyst (The Work of Nations, Vintage Books, 1992)

EXPERIENCE

UNDERSTANDING

JUDGMENT

EVIDENCE

INQUIRY

SYSTEMS

abstraction collaboration

Data, Senses, Images (Awareness)

Patterns, Thoughts (Intelligence)

Truth vs. Fallacy Value vs. Worthless

Right vs. Wrong Reality vs. Fantasy

Morality vs. Inhumanity Insight vs. Intuition

Objective vs. SubjectiveHappiness vs. Conflict

(Rationality and Responsibility)

DECISION

What?

Is it so?

Ought I to?

system thinking experimentation

Essential Knowledge

What is the moral of the story?

Be aware of who you are and what you do

Seek the Truth

Self-Discovery

What is the moral of the story?

Emotional Intelligence

Self Awareness

Self Regulation

Motivation

Empathy

Social Skill

Personal Edification

A Clear Midnight

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,Night, sleep, death and the stars.

—Walt Whitman