What does it mean to support students to think and create "like an expert"? This session highlights evidence-based strategies to promote creative thinking, problem finding, and problem solving in content areas. Take away strategies to guide students to identify underlying problems, make insightful connections, reason strategically, develop multiple solutions, reflect on their own thinking, and transfer learning to new contexts.
Learning Objectives:
Learn and practice creative thinking and problem solving strategies to support the progression from novice to expert-like thinking within a content discipline.
Use models for teaching students structures for problem identification (understanding underlying cause-effect relationships and short-term, long-term, intended, and unintended consequences of a problem or solution idea).
Examine how metaphorical thinking strategies (bridging "new to the known") build schema and support the use of academic language to bridge access to advanced programming for students from underrepresented groups.
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