Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

The Difference Between Logical Fallacies And Cognitive Biases

The difference between fallacies and biases is fallacies are real-time thinking errors while biases are pre-dispositions for future errors.

A question is only a strategy (for inquiry) and must therefore have a purpose if we want to evaluate its quality.

From this practice, you learn to experience, to realize, that what happens to you, and what you do are one in the same process.

Out of all of the ideas and circumstances and knowledge and information that you encounter on a daily basis, what’s worth understanding?

As they are learning, give students the opportunity to articulate their thought process of how they came up with their solution to a puzzle.

As teachers incorporate collaborative learning in their lesson plans, it is critical that they model active listening to their students.

The goal of the Socratic seminar is to foster critical thinking by examining inaccurate/incomplete beliefs and the assumptions behind them.

Critical Thinking / December 17, 2021 January 16, 2022

“Explain how ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ both reinforces and challenges prevailing social norms both then (release date) and today.”

Critical Thinking / December 1, 2021 December 28, 2021 / Inspirational

These quotes about critical thinking can be used to generate reflection, writing & discussion about critical thinking’s value in a society.

Critical Thinking / November 16, 2021 January 28, 2022 / Bloom's Taxonomy, Essential

Why might you need alternatives to Bloom’s Taxonomy? While wonderful, it neglects important ideas that see the whole child.

Learning leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to theories just like theories lead to knowledge. It’s all circular in such an obvious way.

Critical Thinking / November 9, 2021 January 16, 2022 / Essential, Resources

Graphic organizers allow students to visualize, order, and categorize concepts using verbal representations & visuals.