Session Code: 8.INTEG
Program: New York State Teacher Centers
Activity Owner/Manager: NYSTC Registrar - info@nysteachercenters.org
Location: Asynchronous & Synchronous (Asynchronous & Synchronous, NY)
Audience: K12 Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Counselors
Dates: 4/14/2026 to 5/5/2026
Open to All
This course is especially helpful for being resourceful and resilient even when things go wrong, and
will provide educators and students a framework for assessing problems and opportunities, coming up with solutions, listening to how other people are framing situations, and choosing what to do next in order to start and continue down a productive path instead of endless debates, inaction, half-hearted attempts, and dead-end game plans.
Over the long term, success depends on being able to prevail despite uncertainty and unpredictable change. This doesn't happen by accident; this happens through preparing to iterate quickly and well, observing the situation with discernment, analyzing and synthesizing to devise possible solutions, selecting the beneficial options, acting in ways that add to our own abilities and knowledge while minimizing the ability of unforeseen events and opposition to derail our progress, and then modifying our actions based on results.
This course covers habits of mind involved with
*Critical thinking
*Innovation
*Overcoming failure
*Decision making in complicated and complex situations
*Dealing with ambiguity
*Avoiding the traps of simplistic and urgent thinking
*Resilience
*Problem solving, design thinking, and iteration
*The differences between slow and fast problem solving and when to use each
*Individual and group decision making
*Analysis and synthesis
These skills are especially valuable in problem-based learning whether individual or in groups, and can also be used facing the many unforeseen obstacles that occur both in school and outside for both students and teachers. (20 CTLE hours)