The Wake County Public School System is implementing the Creating Independence through Student-owned Strategies or CRISS program to help students “learn more effectively throughout the curriculum.”
The CRISS program teaches students “flexible ways to organize information from both narrative and expository texts.” These organizational techniques include,
1) power thinking,
2) selective underlining,
3) two-column note taking, and
4) concept mapping.
A science teacher who uses the CRISS method had this to say:
“When thinking about the [CRISS] strategies I use in my science classroom, the one teaching strategy I use on a daily basis is inquiry. In my science classes, students can expect a high level of questioning. By doing this the students are allowed to discover a fact or idea about science instead of me reiterating a set of facts. We all know how facts have changed through time and if I do not teach students the deductive reasoning behind how facts are created, I am not teaching students an important skill in today?s world.”
I would like to know more about the scientific facts that have “changed through time.” Allow me to power think that for a while.
