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A June 2013 report called “Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements Through 2020,” found that 96 percent of all occupations will require critical thinking skills. New Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards also stress critical thinking and creative problem solving. Research in the fields of brain, cognitive and mind sciences are providing new insights into critical and creative thinking and intelligence. Explore ways to use the science of “smarter minds” to teach the skills students need to meet today’s new standards, curriculum and careers.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The need for schools to create creative problem solvers

How to develop smarter thinking in students and classrooms

Ways to promote critical and creative thinking skills in students

Strategies to improve math and scientific thinking and learning

The science behind thinking, reasoning, insight, art and creativity

Linking the Arts, tinkering and spatial skills to future innovations

Cognitive tools for improving insight, reflection and imagination

Using “smart” machines with smart students for problem solving

Connections between intelligence, memory, genes and IQ tests

Combining Common Core, deep thinking, reading and writing

Why teens make risky decisions and why humans are irrational

Co-Sponsors Include:

Neuroscience and Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University

Mind, Brain & Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Comer School Development Program, Yale University School of Medicine

The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, The Dana Foundation

The Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)

National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Center for Childhood Creativity

Center for Curriculum Redesign

LEARNING & the BRAIN® Foundation

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