16 Characteristics Of A Critical Thinking Classroom
How do you know if your students are thinking critically in the classroom? Here are examples that might be good indicators.
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Using Authentic Audience In PBL To Unlock Critical Thinking
With an authentic audience in PBL, inquiry can help students ask important questions like, ‘Who is our audience and what are their needs?’
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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.
