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4C'S:

• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity & Problem Solving

Critical Thinking

• The Critical Thinking Community

 

Communication

• ReadWriteThink - At ReadWriteThink, our mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.
• Science Communication Rubric - Project Boston Public Schools
• Written and Oral Communication Skills - Utah Education Network
   

Collaboration

• All Things PLC - The site was created to serve as a collaborative, objective resource for educators and administrators who are committed to enhancing student achievement. We invite you to share your knowledge, ask questions, and get expert insight into the issues teachers face each day in the classroom.
• Buck Institute for Education (BIE) - is dedicated to improving 21st Century teaching and learning throughout the work by creating and disseminating products, practices and knowledge for effective Project Based Learning (PBL).  BIE contributes to PBL through product development, services, research and online learning.
• BIE Collaboration Rubric - pdf
• Collaborative Group Techniques - UMass Amherst Scientific Reasoning Research Institute
• Cooperative Learning Institute and Interation Book Company -
• Educational Literature on Cooperative Learning - Technology, Inc.
• Meta Collab - Wikia Education on collaboration

 

Creativity & Problem Solving

• Creativity in the Classroom - What Research Says to the Teacher (Paul Torrance)
• Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking - Blooms Taxonomy - teacher tap Professional Development resources for educators and librarians
• Sir Ken Robinson on Schools that Kill Creativity (TED Talk - video)