Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking: More Than 'Higher-Order' Cognition
15 Questions To Ask When Introducing New Content To Students
15 Questions To Ask When Introducing New Content To Students by Terry Heick It just might be that in a society where information is abundant, thinking habits are more important...
10 Reasons To Use Inquiry-Based Learning In Your Classroom
10 Reasons To Use Inquiry-Based Learning In Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff We've talked about how and when to use inquiry-based learning--and apps for inquiry-based learning, too. What we haven't...
The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking
The Question Game by Sophie Wrobel, geist.avesophos.de The Question Game: A Playful Way To Teach Critical Thinking Big idea: Teaching kids to ask smart questions on their own A four-year-old asks...
5 Things Teachers Can Do To Help Students Make Meaning
5 Things Teachers Can Do To Help Students Make Meaning contributed by Kelsey Skaggs, MIND Research Institute Rigor gets a bad reputation. It’s that thing that makes life difficult and uncomfortable....
8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions by Terry Heick Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but...
Always-On Inquiry: Why You Should Be Asking More Questions In Your Classroom
Always-On Inquiry: Why You Should Be Asking More Questions In Your Classroom by Irena Nayfeld, TeachThought PD Inquiry Workshop Facilitator Those of us who spend our days around young children...
35 Psychology-Based Critical Thinking Strategies
35 Psychology-Based Critical Thinking Strategies by Sara Briggs, opencolleges.edu.au Have you ever considered letting your students listen to hardcore punk while they take their mid-term exam? Decided to do away with...
Thinking About Your Content Area: Kaplan’s Depth & Complexity Chart
Thinking About Your Content Area: Kaplan’s Depth & Complexity Chart by TeachThought Staff Framing content is among the most powerful strategies teachers have to engage students and promote deep understanding...
50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think
50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think contributed by Lisa Chesser Using the right questions creates powerful, sometimes multiple answers and discussions. Aristotle said that he asked...
126 Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Digital Learning
126 Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Verbs For Digital Learning by TeachThought Staff You can get a ready-for-the-classroom version of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy for $6.95. At TeachThought, we're enthusiastic supporters of any...
Why What Students Don’t Know Is More Important Than What They Do
Why What Students Don't Know Is More Important Than What They Do by Terry Heick For me, my biggest takeaway from college was learning what I didn’t know. So many...
Planning For Critical Thinking: A 5-Step Model
Planning For Critical Thinking: A 5-Step Model by TeachThought Staff Like anything else that you'd like to see happen in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of...
48 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Content Area
48 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Content Area by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking is the heart and soul of learning, and--in our estimation anyway--ultimately more important than any one specific content...
6 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Situation
6 Critical Thinking Questions For Any Situation by TeachThought Staff While it's true that critical thinking is a foundation rather than a brick, how you build that foundation depends on the learning...
28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area
28 Critical Thinking Question Stems For Any Content Area by TeachThought Staff Critical thinking isn’t a skill, nor is it content knowledge or even evidence of understanding. While it involves...
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy
6 Domains Of Cognition: The TeachThought Learning Taxonomy by Terry Heick How can you tell if a student really understands something? They learn early on to play the game—tell the...
The First Step In Teaching Students To Think For Themselves
The First Step In Teaching Students To Think For Themselves by Terry Heick The first step in helping students think for themselves just might be to help them see who...
10 Benefits Of Inquiry-Based Learning
10 Benefits Of Inquiry-Based Learning by TeachThought Staff Inquiry-based learning is a term that educators and parents alike hear bandied about without a clear sense of exactly what it is,...
