The 2000-09 year promises to be an incredible one! We have amended Social Studies standards and myriad resources to assist us in our "global investigations!"
Our specially trained agents of the GLENN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY will become skilled at higher level thinking and will soon be investigating the history, civics, geography and economics of the Middle East, Africa and Asia! Parents, join us for OPEN HOUSE and visit the Realia Museum at the GIA.
DIVIDE...DOCUMENT...WRITE...REVIEW AND CLARIFY...SUMMARIZE
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." John Locke "Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers." Steven Spielberg At Mabry, every teacher is a reading and writing teacher. The GIA will have parallel readings to enhance their global investigations. Writing will also be an integral part of the Social Studies experience.
GIA agents are encouraged to model intelligent behaviors as defined by Arthur Costa. These include decreasing impulsivity; demonstrating persistence; listening to others; flexibility in thinking; meta-cognition; questioning and problem posing; checking for accuracy and precision; drawing on past knowledge; precision of thought and language; collecting data using all the senses; ingenuity, originality, insightfulness; creativity and wonderment; curiosity.
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." --Aristotle
