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12 Ways to Teach Critical Thinking Skills Global Digital Citizen (March 2015)
The idea with critically thinking about something is to formulate your own opinions and draw your own conclusions about it, regardless of outside influence. It’s also about the mental discipline of analysis, and being able to see the connections between ideas.
Critical thinking is a crucial skill for life, and every teacher is looking for more ways to integrate it into the classroom.
Check out the great video and the 12 strategy ideas.
1. Start with Questioning
2. Build a Solid Foundation
3. Use the Classics
4. Create a Country
5. Teach Information Fluency
6. Utilize Peer Groups
7. Write One Sentence
8. Solve a Problem
9. Role Play
10. Draw It Out
11. Prioritize It
12. Adjust Misconceptions
What is Critical Thinking?
Defined: “Critical thinking is a technique for evaluating information and ideas, for deciding what to accept and believe.” Dan Kurland
Critical Thinking Community
A Set of Values
A Set of Skills
Creating Critical Thinkers in the Common Core Classroom
West Ed Schools Moving Up Webinar - November 14, 2013
Staff from the Tulare County (CA) Office of Education provide a structure to begin planning units of study to plan for Common Core. Considerations for this planning include backward design, instructional shifts for Common Core, 21st century learning, and the importance of formative assessment to guide instruction.
The idea with critically thinking about something is to formulate your own opinions and draw your own conclusions about it, regardless of outside influence. It’s also about the mental discipline of analysis, and being able to see the connections between ideas.
Critical thinking is a crucial skill for life, and every teacher is looking for more ways to integrate it into the classroom.
Check out the great video and the 12 strategy ideas.
1. Start with Questioning
2. Build a Solid Foundation
3. Use the Classics
4. Create a Country
5. Teach Information Fluency
6. Utilize Peer Groups
7. Write One Sentence
8. Solve a Problem
9. Role Play
10. Draw It Out
11. Prioritize It
12. Adjust Misconceptions
What is Critical Thinking?
Defined: “Critical thinking is a technique for evaluating information and ideas, for deciding what to accept and believe.” Dan Kurland
Critical Thinking Community
A Set of Values
- Thinking for yourself, as compared to accepting unquestioningly what others want you to believe.
- Welcoming the opportunity to explore new ideas, points of view and possibilities.
- Using reason to investigate questions, evaluate ideas, advocate positions, and resolve conflicts.
- Including the voices and perspectives of diverse parties in the discussion of issues.
- Weighing ideas based on their merits, not who advocates them.
- Achieving the best possible resolution of questions, as compared to winning arguments for the sake of winning them.
A Set of Skills
- Inquiry Skills: the ability to frame questions and gather information.
- Understanding and Evaluation Skills: the ability to understand others’ ideas and evaluate arguments offered in support of them.
- Advocacy Skills: the ability to formulate positions and support them in a manner that promotes reasoned discussion.
Creating Critical Thinkers in the Common Core Classroom
West Ed Schools Moving Up Webinar - November 14, 2013
Staff from the Tulare County (CA) Office of Education provide a structure to begin planning units of study to plan for Common Core. Considerations for this planning include backward design, instructional shifts for Common Core, 21st century learning, and the importance of formative assessment to guide instruction.