Total Credits: .4
This workshop provides participants with concrete tools for teaching critical thinking skills while covering required course content. By the end of the workshop, participants are able to create lesson plans that enhance critical thinking skills based on content from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences. Participants will also learn how these skills can be easily and accurately measured.
By the end of this workshop, participants know or are able to:
Activities:
Dr. John Eigenauer is a professor of philosophy at Taft College. He holds a master’s degree in English, a master’s degree in humanities, and a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from Syracuse University, where he was the recipient of the prestigious Syracuse University Fellowship. Dr. Eigenauer has taught philosophy, English, mathematics, computer science, physics, and Spanish. He has delivered workshops nationally and internationally on the pedagogy of critical thinking and published articles on critical thinking and rationality. His most recent article, “The Problem With the Problem of Human Rationality,” published in the International Journal of Educational Reform, was highlighted in Psychology Today. Other publications of Dr. Eigenauer’s have appeared in The Historian, The Harvard Theological Review, History of Intellectual Culture, Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines, The Rational Alternative, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Eighteenth-Century Studies, The Huntington Library Quarterly, Innovation Abstracts, and The NISOD Papers.
Drury Inn & Suites Huntsville at the Space & Rocket Center (Directly across the street from campus)
93 Wynn Drive NW
Huntsville, AL 35805
(256) 430-9888
Hampton Inn & Suites Huntsville/Research Park Area
7010 Cabela Drive
Huntsville, AL 35806
(256) 971-1850
Home2 Suites by Hilton Huntsville/Research Park Area
7010 Cabela Drive
Huntsville, AL 85806
(256) 971-1667
Sleep Inn & Suites Huntsville Near U.S. Space & Rocket Center
4727 University Drive
Huntsville, AL 35816
(256) 382-2583
Cancellation and Refund Policy
Cancellation and refund requests, minus a $25 administrative fee, must be received in by October 7, 2022. Refunds will not be given for no-shows. Registrants who have an outstanding balance and do not attend the workshop are responsible for the $25 administrative fee. Substitutions are accepted at any time prior to the workshop by submitting a written request to Kelley Berley. The individual requesting the transfer is responsible for all financial obligations (any balance due) associated with the transfer.
Consent to Use of Photographic Images
By registering for one or more of these modules, you consent to being recorded for any purpose whatsoever, and you release NISOD and The University of Texas at Austin and their officers and representatives from any liability for infringement of any rights, and you expressively authorize and permit the use of your name, voice, and likeness and all reproductions thereof, for any purpose whatsoever, in perpetuity in any media now known or hereafter devised, without limitation and without compensation.
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| 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch provided by NISOD. |
Calhoun Community College - Huntsville Campus
Multi-Function Room
102 Wynn Dr. NW
Huntsville, AL 35805
