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Innovation Apprentice - CTHS
Issued by
Cherry Creek School District
Earner has demonstrated competency in innovation by synthesizing existing ideas, images, or concepts, engaging in critical analysis, and working in creative ways as characterized by a high degree of intellectual risk taking, divergent thinking, and innovation to bring about an improvement.This micro-credential is derived from the Colorado Department of Education’s 21st Century Essential Skills and recommended areas for affective programming for Gifted and Talented students.
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Skills
Earning Criteria
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Earner has demonstrated competency in innovation in two of the following areas: Synthesis, Critical Analysis, Creativity, and Curiosity.
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SYNTHESIS: The combining of parts to form a whole.
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS: A serious examination and careful judgement of something; to scrutinize and/or question claims of knowledge.
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CREATIVITY: to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations.
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CURIOSITY: To explore a topic in depth, yielding a rich awareness.
Standards
Colorado Department of Education identifies the following skills and knowledge areas key to college and/or career readiness in the 21st Century: Critical Thinking and Reasoning, Information Literacy, Collaboration, Self-Direction, and Invention.
Colorado Department of Education's Office of Gifted and Talented identifies the following skills and knowledge as key to college and/or career readiness in the 21st Century: Personal Competence, Social Competence, Leadership Competence, Cultural Competence, and Communication Competence.