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. CCT611 Science in Society [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 Making Sense of Numbers [Seminar in Critical Thinking]
13. PolSci260 Politics and the Environment
14. PPOL 749 Scientific and Political Change (Previously: Science, Technology and Public Policy)
15. PPOL 753 (Nursng 753) Epidemiological Thinking and Population Health (Previously: PPOL/Geron/Nursng/HighEd 797)
16. WoSt 597 Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology