Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking: More Than 'Higher-Order' Cognition
The 6 Facets Of Understanding: A Definition For Teachers
The 6 Facets of Understanding is a non-hierarchical framework for understanding useful for assessment and instructional design.
8 Ways Parents Can Support Critical Thinking At Home
8 Ways Parents Can Support Critical Thinking At Home by Lee Caroll, PhD and TeachThought Staff Research agrees that the strongest students emerge from homes supportive in the learning process,...
8 Science-Based Strategies For Critical Thinking
8 Science-Based Strategies For Critical Thinking contributed by Lee Carroll, PhD and Terry Heick Scientific argumentation and critical thought are difficult to argue against. However, as qualities and mindsets, they...
20 Questions To Help Students Think Critically About News
Misleading information is often based on partial truths and then reframed to fit a particular purpose: cause an emotion such as fear or lead to a specific action.
An Interesting Game To Teach Students To Think Critically About Fake News
This (simple) game helps students understand how fake news works, why it becomes popular, and its central mechanics and trends.
The Cognitive Bias Codex: A Visual Of 180+ Cognitive Biases
The Cognitive Bias Codex: A Visual Of 180+ Cognitive Biases by Terry Heick A cognitive bias is an inherent thinking 'blind spot' that reduces thinking accuracy and results inaccurate--and often...
How To Build MECE Hypotheses Using A Decision Tree
How To Build MECE Hypotheses Using A Decision Tree contributed by Ethan Andrews What is a MECE Hypothesis? This is quite the mouthful and unless you are a consultant, it...
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick Imagine the dogged pursuit of a proper clock-maker, day after day bound up in design and measurement and function and...
Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
As a culture, we have a thought crisis--namely, a harmful and enduring refusal and/or inability to think well and think critically.
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different by Terry Heick This post was one of our earliest posts from Terry Heick in very early 2012. It has now been updated...
Want To Make A Difficult Conversation Productive? Use A Protocol
Want To Make A Difficult Conversation Productive? Use A Protocol contributed by Michele Mattoon, NSRF Director *Join Michele and Director of TeachThought PD, Drew Perkins, for this summer's Grow 19...
38 Prompts Merging Reflective Thinking With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Sample prompt: Were the strategies, skills, and procedures I used effective for this assignment?
Create A Curriculum That Questions The Purpose Of Knowledge
"Curriculum that questions the purpose of knowledge." by Terry Heick In our recent post, Education’s Curious Fascination With Uniformity, reader James Foss left a useful comment that had within it...
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking by TeachThought Staff See also 10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking Critical Thinking As an organization, critical thinking is at the core of what...
What Is Swarm Problem Solving?
What Is Swarm Problem Solving? contributed by Dr. Jamie Schwandt, (Ed.D.) “It would be unlikely that it would be a fish that discovered water, or a bird air.” – Chinese Proverb A...
100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking
Evaluate: Criticize, Reframe, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize Plan, Grade, Reframe, Revise, Refine, Grade, Argue, Support, Decide, Re-design
60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves
60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves by Terry Heick Motivating and engaging students is the goal of most teachers--priming them to receive instruction, or otherwise align themselves to...
What Is Four-Dimensional Questioning?
What is Four-DImensional thinking? The way you ask a question yields different results and can lead you in different directions.
