Practitioner's Portfolio: Courses
Peter J. Taylor
Program in Critical & Creative Thinking
Graduate College of Education
University of Massachusetts, Boston
(Return to full 2005 portfolio or view previous reviews of courses and teaching from 2001, 1999, 1995 )
For each course taught at UMB since 1998 I include a review of:
- the original objectives for the course (which should be read together with the description and goals stated in the syllabi);
- challenges encountered and my responses; and
- future plans.
Each review is followed by:
- the syllabi;
- summaries of the GCOE evaluations;
- summaries from the written course evaluations I designed; and/or
- the originals of those evaluations [not available in online version].
1. CCT670 Thinking, Learning and Computers
2. CCT692 Processes of Research and Engagement (previously 698: Practicum)
3. CCT601 Critical Thinking (with A. Millman)
4. CCT645 Biology in Society: Critical Thinking (previously CCT611, Seminar in Critical Thinking)
5. CCT693 Action Research for Educational, Professional, and Personal Change (Previously: Seminar in Evaluation of Educational Change)
6. CCT694 Synthesis Seminar
7. CCT640 Environment, Science & Society [C&CT in Sci. & Tech.]
8. Ed 610 Computers, Technology, and Education
Additional special topics courses I organized and taught in:
9. CCT697 New Directions in Science Education
10. CCT697 Critical and Creative Thinking in Practice
11. CCT697 Critical and Creative Thinking in the Workplace
New courses since Fall 2001:
12. CCT611->650 Mathematical Thinking (formerly Making Sense of Numbers [Seminar in Critical Thinking])
13. PolSci260 Politics and the Environment
14. PPOL 749 (CCT649) Scientific and Political Change (Previously: Science, Technology and Public Policy)
15. PPOL 753 (Nursng 753/CCT653) Epidemiological Thinking and Population Health (Previously: PPOL/Geron/Nursng/HighEd 797)
16. WGS 597 Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology
16a. CCT 618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change (workshop on "Cultivating Collaborators")
17. CCT 602 Creative Thinking
18. CCT611 Design for Living Complexities [Seminar in Critical Thinking]
19. CCT651 Cognitive Psychology
20. WGS 597 Life and Difference, Text and Context