ERIC Number: ED320632
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990-Apr-6
Pages: 30
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Composition and Critical Thinking through Cooperative Education.
Stephenson-Miles, Belinda
At LaGuardia Community College, students enrolled in the cooperative education (Co-Op Ed) program are required to complete three internships and concurrent seminars as a requirement for graduation. The seminar curriculum provides a theoretical framework for analyzing and evaluating the students' internship experiences. The seminars also serve as a suitable place to improve students' critical thinking skills and writing abilities. Students are required to keep weekly logs to record the facts learned, activities engaged in, and incidents observed at the internship site. They are also required to critically analyze each of the items listed in their logs using Bloom's taxonomy as a guide. Infusion of critical thinking methods into the internship experience requires the following: (1) developing a statement of philosophy that identifies the strategies and methodologies that will be used; (2) taking the class situation into consideration when planning the curriculum; (3) identifying the target population; (4) creating course objectives; (5) preparing activities that arouse all cognitive levels, build on experiences, promote use of evidence, and link thinking with language; (6) developing evaluation instruments; (7) selecting materials to assist students at each developmental stage; (8) sharing and exchanging ideas and insights with human resources; (9) setting a realistic time frame for achieving goals; and (10) keeping notes and records on program successes and areas of improvement. Sample essay guides, as well as a sample log and worksheet, are appended. (WJT)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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