Abstract:
With increasing emphasis on students' ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills, the need for instructors to demonstrate that type of higher order cognitive activity also increases. However, studies of college professors reveal that a preponderance of oral presentations by teachers typically reflect thinking at the lower cognitive levels. Professors, though, have indicated a desire to change their teaching so that greater opportunilies exist for students to develop thinking skills during classroom sessions.
Therefore, a nine-month faculty intercession program was designed and implemented to prepare professors to teach thinking skills in college of agriculture classrooms. At the end of the nine-month intercession, the frequency in which opportunities were given by professors for students to think at higher cognitive levels increased. This paper shares the rationale, readings, and workshop topics used to raise the cognitive level of selected college professors' classroom teaching.
Keywords:
opportunities, thinking, classroom, intercession program
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