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  Formulating Arguments: Deductive and Inductive Reasoning

  Tolga Tezcan

  To help students practice deductive logic by formulating testable hypotheses and deconstructing arguments. To enable students to apply inductive logic by analyzing specific observations to identify and articulate broader social patterns.

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  Working with Conclusions through Logical Fallacies: Finding Faults and Rebuttals

  Timothy David Orme

  To help students identify logical fallacies, the harm of those fallacies, and how they might pinpoint them in their own work.

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  Analyzing Policy and Stakeholder Perspectives – the Case of the Spotted Owl

  Victoria Derr

  • Effectively reading in our discipline – focused on Text-Based Discussions
    • Collaborative Meaning Making – reading as an inquiry into meaning and a purposeful engagement with ideas. [1]
    • Setting Reading Purposes and Adjusting Reading Processes – reading for a specific, disciplinary-relevant purpose.[2]
  • Identifying and analyzing stakeholder perspectives
  • Applying policy to understand stakeholder perspectives

  [1] Schoenback, Ruth, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Lynn Murphy. 2012. Reading for Understanding: How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms. WestEd.org.

  [2] Ibid.

  
  
  

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  Active Listening "Debates" - Classroom Activity

  Victoria Derr

  Students will practice critical thinking, active listening, and the development and presentation of arguments and positions through oral and written communication.