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how to integrate the cross-domain aptitudes of curiosity and persistence with the domain-specific aptitude, mathematical reasoning. As you become more adept at designing talent goals, begin to use cluster goals to provide more opportunities for learners to discover their areas of strength. Assessing the Aptitude of Curiosity Your talent-targeted goal and corresponding performance

of understanding focus

on developing curiosity in the context of mastering specific knowledge and four • Teach the Seven Aptitudes of Innovators 61 skills. You can assess evidence of curiosity using the Talent Aptitude Learning Progressions to compose rubrics (Figure 4.1). This assessment process is discussed in detail in Chapter 7. In addition to assessing the talent aptitudes, use your own formative assessments to collect evidence of mastery of content knowledge and skills in the standards and objectives. Figure 4.1 Curiosity Learning Progressions Curiosity Emerging Progressing Advancing

Teacher Rubric Asks questions

on topics of interest; observes, explores, and investigates when prompted. Shows interest in new ideas; asks questions; observes, explores, and investigates. Seeks out new ideas; asks searching questions; observes intently; widely explores and investigates. Student Rubric I am mostly interested in ideas and environments that are familiar to me. I am interested in new ideas and environments, and I ask questions that I can explore.

I am eager to learn new ideas, and I investigate new environments to find answers to my questions. 2. Logical Reasoning Reasoning is the process by which we think, learn, and make decisions. However, not all reasoning is logical. Logical reasoning is a type of critical thinking that helps us to see the relationships among

facts, deduce patterns and rules,

and apply them to make sensible judgments removed from emotion. While logic is important in understanding abstract subjects such as mathematics, the principles of logic are universal and can be use to reason across all disciplines. Logic improves our critical thinking by helping us to identify sound from fallacious reasoning, to discern truth from lies. Its universal principles can be teach. 8 Logical reasoning is one aptitude of innovators that can be assess on intelligence (IQ) tests. Young children who are intellectually gift will question, argue, and defend their arguments “logically.”9 While some have an advance aptitude for logical reasoning, all of us can learn strategies to improve.

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Talent Innovators Use Logical Reasoning Innovators use logical reasoning to decide which ideas to pursue to completion. They must hypothesize consequences, evaluate them, and know when to delay a decision. They use logical reasoning to systematically evaluate their ideas and “prune out” those with little chance for success. Within their optimistic risktaking, they make “educated inferences.”

Innovators also use logic

to sell their ideas to others: “If you expect people to accept your own conclusions, then it’s your responsibility to give them reasons they can appreciate.”10 Successful innovators use logical reasoning to find and define the “real problem” that needs to be solve. For example, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he wasn’t solving the problem of how to sell more books but rather answering the question “What are people likely to buy over the Internet.

details;

Firstly, be keen

secondly, logic

thirdly, be creative

Further, be innovative

further, jeff

Lastly, integrity