OPINION: Can We Teach Critical Thinking In Schools?
Can we teach critical thinking in schools? Of course we can. A better question: Are schools designed to teach children to think?
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50 Sentence Stems for Reading Critically
Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.
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60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves
There are many ways to help students think for themselves. Guide them to dynamic spaces characterized by people, thought, and creativity.
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15 Legitimate Ways Daydreaming Improves Thinking
How Does Daydreaming Improve Thinking? The student’s eyes drift to the classroom window and the teacher’s voice fades from consciousness. The daydream begins. It’s a familiar scene, one we have likely both experienced as students and struggled against in our students as teachers. But daydreaming is not what it might seem. Recent research in psychology…
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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
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How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.
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The Relationship Between Quality And Effect
What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.
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8 Science-Based Strategies For Critical Thinking
The development of beliefs based on critical reasoning and quality data is much closer to a science-based approach to critical thinking.
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What Is Kaplan’s Depth And Complexity Chart?
The Kaplan Depth & Complexity chart is a way to promote complex and in-depth analysis of academic and non-academic content.
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3 Modes Of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent & Convergent Thought
Lateral thinking solves problems via a creative approach involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using traditional step-by-step logic.
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Creating Students Who Solve Problems
They reduce the opportunities to explore creativity in subjects. If we want to create students that solve problems, we need to start from the beginning.
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15 Questions Students Can Ask Themselves When Learning New Content
When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage a growth mindset.
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The 4 Cs: A Framework For Improving Math Skills
The Four Cs stand for Converse, Count, Compare, Categorize, each of which are critical to the development of a young child’s mathematical knowledge.
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35 Psychology-Based Critical Thinking Strategies
State-Dependent Recall: It is easiest to recall information when you are in a state similar to the one in which you initially learned the material.
