Thinking and Academic Success Skills (TASS)
TASS Skills are integrated throughout the curriculum. Each marking period has two skills that are explicitly taught and then integrated into lessons. (That does not mean that once covered they are no longer used in our classroom!)
Marking Period 1
Analysis: Breaking down a whole into parts that may not be immediately obvious and examining the parts so that the whole is understood Collaboration: working effectively and respectively to read a common goal Marking Period 3
Synthesis: Putting parts together to build understanding of a whole concept or to form a new or unique whole. Effort/Motivation/Persistence: Working diligently and applying effective strategies to achieve a goal or solve a problem; continuing in the face of obstacles and competing pressures. |
Marking Period 2
Fluency: generate multiple responses to a problem or idea Intellectual Risk Taking: accept uncertainty or challenge the norm to read a goal Marking Period 4
Originality: Creating ideas and solutions that are novel or unique to the individual, group, or situation. Metacognition: Knowing and being aware of one's own thinking and having the ability to monitor and evaluate one's own thinking. |