Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

Using Authentic Audience In PBL To Unlock Critical Thinking

With an authentic audience in PBL, inquiry can help students ask important questions like, ‘Who is our audience and what are their needs?’

Critical Thinking / April 4, 2021 January 16, 2022 / Essential, Terry Heick

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 for teaching critical thinking? This led to many dozens of answers.

Critical Thinking / February 25, 2021 December 29, 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 December 5, 2021 / Inquiry

According to the creators, the question formulation technique helps build skills for lifelong learning, self-advocacy & democratic action.

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 27, 2021 / 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.

Critical Thinking / November 11, 2020 January 11, 2022 / Terry Heick

Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.

This guide to questioning in the classroom views questions as signs of understanding, not ignorance–the ability to see what you’re missing.