Can You Cultivate Critical Thinking With Infographics? contributed by Latasha Doyle One of the most difficult aspects of teaching is ensuring that your students are actually evaluating the information, rather than just regurgitating it back to you. Critical thinking skills are incorporated into nearly every lesson plan now, especially with the implementation of Common Core…
The purpose of ‘The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking’ is to identify repeatable thinking strategies for success.
“‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”–David Foster Wallace
What was your mindset going in to the activity? What do you discover about yourself during the learning process?
How To Help Students Ask Better Questions There’s nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student better than being able to ask the right question at the right time. In “Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers,” I said that “Questioning is the art of…
Teaching has always been an emotional profession, but it the current education climate has created a culture of burnout and stress.
How To Use Post-it® Super Sticky Notes To Promote Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff How can Post-it® Super Sticky Notes be used to promote critical thinking in the STEM high school classroom? Quite effectively, it turns out–especially if you’re familiar with Concept Attainment as a teaching and learning strategy. The Post-it® Brand recently conducted a…
Here are ways teachers can use Post-it notes and other products to promote critical thinking in the classroom.
Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D. I specialize in an odd subject—research. I teach students to select a subject area, pick a topic, craft a question, design a prospectus, follow through on the plans, adapt to obstacles and “interesting” findings, organize results, and create an appropriate outcome that matches the content and…
Search is about finding pieces, knowledge is about knowing the potential value of those pieces.
By ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find the information they want rather than the information they need.
Although many people think that an academic argument is a one-sided attempt at persuasion, it’s really more like a scientific paper.
The more it is used, the more comfortable they’ll get with the nuance of the structure of the 6-step process,
Depth of Knowledge frameworks can be useful for planning curriculum, designing assessments, or making judgments about student reading, writing, and math.