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11-06-2007: Workshop on Richard Paul's Teaching Design with Dr Richard Paul

2008 Workshop on Richard Paul's Teaching Design with Dr. Richard Paul

Foundation for Critical Thinking

Foundation for Critical Thinking
News
For Immediate Release
Contact: Hunter Finch
707-878-9100 X 17
hfinch@criticalthinking.org
The Foundation for Critical Thinking To Host
3-Day Open Workshop On Richard Paul’s Teaching Design

Dillon Beach, CA (November 6, 2007) – Dr. Richard Paul is not only one of the leading theoreticians in Critical Thinking; he is also a distinguished teacher. Yet very few teachers have had an opportunity to be in one of his classes.

The Foundation for Critical Thinking announced today it will host a 3-day workshop on Richard Paul’s teaching design. The workshop will be held at the Berkeley Doubletree Hotel and Marina, near the UC Berkeley Campus, on February 29 through March 2, 2008. Availability is limited and interested parties are urged to register early.

Richard Paul's workshops, like his classes, are designed to foster the intellectual engagement of every student in every class, and so this workshop is designed to acquaint attendees first hand with the "Paulian manner."
 
Teachers, curriculum designers, administrators, and students who attend the class will be taught by Richard Paul for six hours (just as any student in his class would be), during which Paul will make clear how he is making strategic teaching decisions each step along the way. He then will help attendees design the first 10 class sessions of any given class they choose to teach (in the manner he would teach it, were he them). Attendees will experience firsthand the power of being intensively and intellectually stimulated.

Paul said, "The best way to come to appreciate the importance of intellectual engagement in learning is having directly experienced being taught in this manner. Nothing can substitute for the experience of being intellectually engaged in learning, and I will strive to give the participants that unique experience. Throughout the workshop, I will demonstrate how to devise ways of teaching class sessions that progressively build upon each other."

Paul’s teaching strategies reflect insights implicit in the traditional design of Oxford tutorials and Cambridge supervisions.

"I experienced the power of the Cambridge supervisions while at Cambridge," said Paul. "I was tutored by the philosopher John Wisdom. Of course, I adapt my teaching to much larger student numbers than those of the Oxford or Cambridge don, who teaches one or two students at a sitting. In this workshop I will show participants how to get students intellectually engaged, even when we are teaching large classes and when our students are significantly less advanced than are the students at Oxford and Cambridge.  I will also model the art of teaching critical reading, critical writing, and critical speaking as part of this process," said Paul.

The Center and Foundation for Critical Thinking have together hosted critical thinking academies, workshops, and conferences for more than a quarter century. During that time, these sister entities have played a key role in defining, structuring, assessing, improving and advancing the principles and best practices of fair-minded critical thought in education and in society.

Throughout their work, the Center and Foundation have emphasized and argued for the importance of teaching critical thinking in a strong, rather than in a weak, sense. All fellows at the Foundation are committed to a clear and "substantive" concept of critical thinking (rather than to one that is ill-defined); to a concept that interfaces well with the disciplines, that integrates critical with creative thinking, that emphasizes the affective as well as the cognitive dimension of critical thinking, and that highlights intellectual standards and traits.

To Register for the Workshop on Richard Paul's Teaching Design, log onto: 
http://www.criticalthinking.org/conference/Spring08-RPTeach.cfm

For More About The Foundation for Critical Thinking, log onto: http://www.criticalthinking.org
 
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Dr. Richard Paul

 

 

Dr. Richard Paul,
As Director of Research and Professional Development at the Center for Critical Thinking and Chair of the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, Dr. Paul is an internationally recognized authority on critical thinking, with eight books and over 200 articles on the subject.

He has written books for every grade level and has done extensive experimentation with teaching tactics and strategies, devising, among other things, novel ways to engage students in rigorous self-assessment.

Dr. Paul has received four degrees, numerous honors, and has given lectures on critical thinking at many universities in both the United States and abroad, including Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the universities of Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, British Columbia, Toronto, and Amsterdam. He has taught beginning and advanced courses in critical thinking at the university level for over 20 years.

His views on critical thinking have been canvassed in the New York Times, Education Week, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Teacher, Reader’s Digest, Educational Leadership, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Paul’s wide-ranging knowledge, practical strategies, and enthusiasm make him highly sought-after as a keynoter and workshop presenter.