Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

Using The 3-2-1 Learning Strategy For Critical Thinking

The 3-2-1 strategy is a simple way to frame a topic or task, making it useful for anything from discussion prompts to inquiry learning.

Critical thinking strategies often employ multiple data sources and perspectives in pursuit of understanding.

With an authentic audience, inquiry can help them begin to ask important questions like, ‘Who is our audience and what are their needs?’

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

What are some of the most common types of questions? What are the categories of questions? This led to many dozens of answers.

Critical Thinking / February 25, 2021 February 25, 2021 / Terry Heick

Can we teach critical thinking in schools? Of course we can. A better question: Are schools designed to teach children to think?

Critical Thinking / February 22, 2021 February 24, 2021 / Inquiry

The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) is a process for collaboratively brainstorming and improving questions for inquiry learning.

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

There are many ways to help students think for themselves. Guide them to dynamic spaces characterized by people, thought, and creativity.

The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.

The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.

Critical Thinking / November 17, 2020 December 30, 2020 / Terry Heick

What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.