Think Smart: Strategies for Powerful Learning Tasks

1. Understand how to design tasks that encourage students to connect concepts with their personal experiences or existing knowledge to deepen understanding and engagement.
2. Learn how to create assignments that promote critical thinking through problem-solving, role-playing, and case simulations, helping students to explore unfamiliar perspectives and hypothetical situations.
3. Be able to develop structured assignments, such as thesis support tasks and data-provided assignments, that foster students’ ability to summarize, argue, and critically evaluate content in both written and verbal formats.