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** Learning Objective Teachers will gain an understanding of what Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) is.**


 * 21st Century Skills:**CGI involves higher order thinking skills on the part of the problem solver. The answer is never given by the teacher.


 * Cognitive Type/Skills thinking, problem solving, dramtization, reading, writing, sharing, leadership **

**Activity:** > > **Resources** There is a CGI organization and training through Wake County Math Dept. A goole search will provide the different types of problems along with articles and research about the benefits for the future of math education. You may also contact me at drobert@wcpss.net
 * **The teacher explains that the answer is not at all important. The idea is trying to figure out ways to solve the problems. The answer is NEVER to be called out.**
 * **The teacher will write a word problem on the board or chart paper. The class reads it together a few times. The teacher asks what is important information in this problem. (We know that there are 5 trees...) then what we need to find out.**
 * **Children act out the problem. The teacher can stress that the objects are not what is important..the numbers are. (It doesn't matter if there are 5 apples or 5 couches as an example.)**
 * **Children go to their seats. On each table should be a container containing many manipulatives such as cubes, time lines, chips, 100 boards, ten rods and so on. (Note: There should not be too many of one manipulative as it will force others to use something different.) Encourage students to write about how they solved the problem.**
 * **Adults go around and remark as the following: Hummm, that looks interesting. Tell me about it. Show me what you did.**
 * **Teacher should choose a few students to demonstrate what they did using the over-head projector. Others can listen and ask questions.**
 * **Teacher never explains how to do the problem and should not stress to students who got the "right answer".**