Important Terms
- Collaboration- Effectively contribute to a diverse team.
- Group engagement- The act of sharing in the activities tasked to the group.
- Teamwork- Skills that allow employees to operate well in a group setting. It promotes healthy employee relationships and empowers your colleagues to collaborate and work as a team more effectively to collectively meet your company’s goals and targets.
Reflecting
In this final of three sections, you will reflect upon your experiences in this microcredential.
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Implementing
In this second of three sections, you will identify gaps in your critical thinking skills set and create an implementation plan to improve your skills.
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Learning
In this first of three sections, you will be learning about important aspects of soft skills related to critical thinking.
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Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession
- Standard 7: Teachers assume responsibility for professional growth, performance, and involvement as an individual and as a member of a learning community.
- Teachers take responsibility for engaging in continuous, purposeful professional development.
SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)
- Behavioral Competency #6: Critical Evaluation
- Key Behaviors:
- Making sound decisions based on evaluation of available information.
- Applying critical thinking to information received from organizational stakeholders, and evaluating what can be used for organizational success.
- Gathering critical information.
- Key Behaviors:
Important Terms
- Critical thinking- The ability to analyze information objectively, assess different perspectives, and reach logical conclusions without being influenced by emotion or personal biases.