Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking: More Than 'Higher-Order' Cognition
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...
Teaching Critical Thinking Starts With The Student
The first step in helping students think for themselves just might be to help them see who they are and where they are and what they should know in response.
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,...
Every School Is A Think Tank
Every School Is A Think Tank by Terry Heick Every school is a think tank. Every school, by design, opens it doors to the brightest developing minds a community has...
5 Absurd Myths About Critical Thinking
5 Absurd Myths About Critical Thinking by Karin Hess, Ed.D. ed note: We have published content in the past with references to Webb's DOK framework, and it is often met...
Can You Cultivate Critical Thinking With Infographics?
Can You Cultivate Critical Thinking With Infographics? contributed by Latasha Doyle One of the most difficult aspects of teaching is ensuring that your students are actually evaluating the information, rather...
Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking
Bertrand Russell's 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking By Terry Heick For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has had a surprisingly small impact on...
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs For 21st Century Students
Graphic: Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Verbs by TeachThought Staff Bloom's Taxonomy makes the education world go 'round. In one model is a framework that not only lays out for teachers the...
Book: The 5 Elements Of Effective Thinking
Book: The 5 Elements Of Effective Thinking by TeachThought Staff Title: The 5 Elements Of Effective Thinking Publish Date: August 26, 2012 Purpose: Identify repeatable thinking strategies for success Length: 169...
David Foster Wallace On What It Means To Think
David Foster Wallace On What It Means To Think by Terry Heick In the well-known commencement speech David Foster Wallace delivered to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College, Wallace...
