Critical Thinking

Practicing critical thinking at home--in their 'native environment'--is a useful strategy to build their cognitive muscles.

The Kaplan Depth & Complexity chart is a way to promote complex and in-depth analysis of academic and non-academic content.

Lateral thinking solves problems via a creative approach involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using traditional step-by-step logic.

The relationship between learning goals and empathy may not be clear but what we choose to study and why we...

They reduce the opportunities to explore creativity in subjects. If we want to create students that solve problems, we need...

When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage students to develop...

The Four Cs stand for Converse, Count, Compare, Categorize, each of which are critical to the development of a young...

State-Dependent Recall: It is easiest to recall information when you are in a state similar to the one in which...

By forcing students to distill one relationship in order to understand another, it's almost impossible to solve analogies without understanding.

Wisdom is knowing what's worth understanding, understanding the value of ideas, and always placing knowing in the context of not...

When researching online, what's easiest to find may not necessarily be accurate or represent a full understanding.

Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of...