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8 Of The Most Important Critical Thinking Skills

Terrell HeickSep 5, 2024

The most important critical thinking skills include analysis, synthesis, interpretation, inferencing, and judgement.

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

Terrell HeickSep 3, 2024

Bertrand Russell’s essential rules of critical thinking: #1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs For 21st Century Students

TeachThought StaffAug 24, 2024

Global Digital Citizen Foundation combines both Bloom’s Taxonomy and power verbs for lesson & assessment planning in this graphic.

An Updated Guide To Questioning In The Classroom

Terrell HeickJun 5, 2024

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

Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding

TeachThought StaffMar 30, 2024

“A philosophy…sometimes called an understanding of the law…is a way that a person holds the laws…to guess quickly at consequences.”

12 Questions To Help Students See Themselves As Thinkers

Terrell HeickJul 21, 2023

Self-knowledge is formed through metacognition and basic epistemology. Here are 12 questions to help students see themselves as thinkers.v

Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking

Terrell HeickJun 26, 2023

We can address a deficit of critical thinking by embedding into the architecture of education. This can be accomplished in any…

32 Habits That Make Thinkers

Terrell HeickJun 12, 2023

These 32 habits that make thinkers can lead to that critical shift that moves students from mere students to learners who…