intentionally teach critical-thinking skills 2016 handout
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Intentionally TeachCritical-Thinking Skills
20th Century Skills 21st Century Too!
1. Analyzing and utilizing information2. Addressing complex problems and issues3. Creating patterns and mental models4.Understanding and controlling oneself5. Understanding and interacting with others
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What is Critical Thinking?
! Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined
process of actively and skillfully conceptua lizing,
applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information gathered from, or gener ated by,
observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or
communication, as a guide to belief and a ction.
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Why Should We Teach Kids to Think?
! Our modern society is faster
paced, globally networked,technologically oriented, andrequires workers who can problemsolve and think critically.
! Facts change and informationmultiplies at an incredibly fast
rate. It is important for students tohave an understanding of how toget information and make sense ofit all.
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What is problem solving?
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The process one engages in to answerquestions such as:" How will I overcome this obstacle?" How will I reach my goal but still meet these
conditions?
*Robert Marzano and John Kendall (2007)
Games
! List as many critical-thinking
games as you can.
How do you have time forgames when you have to teach
the standards?
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Body Patterns
Set Be a Mind Reader
1. Its on the wall. Play
2. It has one syllable. Play
3. Its a noun. Friend
4. It has six letters in it. Friend
5. It completes this sentence: My ____ is coming
over to play tonight. Friend
Source: B.K. Scheffer andM. G. Rubenfeld, AConsensus Statement on Critica l Thinkingon Nursin g,J ournal of Nursin g
Education , 39, 352-9 (2000).
Divergent Thinking
! Generating multiple options for solving aproblem.
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Discriminating: Recognizing differences orsimilarities among things or situations
Source: B.K. Scheffer andM. G. Rubenfeld, AConsensus Statement on Critica l Thinkingon Nursin g,J ournal of Nursin g
Education , 39, 352-9 (2000).
Pattern Blocks Pattern Blocks
Critical Thinking Skill
! Analyzing: Separating or breaking a whole
into parts
Source: B.K. Scheffer andM. G. Rubenfe ld, AC ons ensus Statement on Critical Thinking on Nursin g,J ournal of Nursin g
Education , 39, 352-9 (2000).
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Physical Spaces
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Physical spaces should be flexible andadaptable, enable collaboration,interaction and information sharing, andshould be connected with the largercommunity that surrounds the school.
Clutter
! Make sure your classroom is physicallyneat before each learning session.
! Analyze storage space. Do you haveenough?
! At least one time per month, look atyour classroom through the eyes ofsomeone else.
Peripherals
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