Critical Thinking 1
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What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking skills
Critical thinking Activities
Why teach critical thinking
Teaching strategies
What is critical thinking?
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process
of actively and skillfully
conceptualizing, applying,
analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information
gathered from, or generated by, observation,
experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication
as a guide .
Critical thinking skills
1-Analyzing.
2-Reasoning.
3-Evaluating.
4-Problem solving.
5-Decision making.
Critical thinking Activities
1-Note-taking pairs.
2-Quiz or test questions.
3-Round Robin response.
4-Summarizing peers' answers.
5-Active review sessions.
6-Debates.
7-Interviewing.
8-Exchanging Evaluation.
9-Puzzles and paradoxes.
10-Quotations.
11-Role-playing.
12-Jigsaw group projects.
13-Send a problem.
14-Relating concepts.
15-Analyzing and composing.
16-Comparing and evaluating.
Teaching strategies:
(Classroom Assessment Techniques):
Stresses the use of ongoing classroom assessment
as a way to monitor
and facilitate students' critical
thinking.
An example of a CAT is to ask students to write a
"Minute Paper" responding to questions such as
"What was the most important thing you
learned in today's class?
What question related to this session remains
uppermost in your mind?" The
teacher selects
some of the papers and prepares responses for
the next class meeting.
Using Questions:
Experts identify ways of using questions in the
classroom: Reciprocal Peer Questioning:
Following
lecture, the teacher displays a list of question stems
(such
as, "What are the strengths and weaknesses
of...........................?).
Students must write questions about the lecture
material. In small groups, the students ask
each
other the questions. Then, the whole class
discusses questions from each small group.
Cooperative Learning Strategies :
Experts argue that putting students in group learning
situations is the best way to foster critical thinking.
"In properly structured cooperative learning
environments, students perform more of the active,
critical thinking with continuous support and feedback
from other students and the teacher"
Case Study /Discussion Method:
Experts describe this method as the teacher presenting
a case (or story) to the class
without a conclusion.
Using prepared questions, the teacher then leads
students through a discussion, allowing students to
construct a conclusion for the case.
Reader's Questions:
Require students to write questions on assigned reading
and turn them in at the
beginning of class.
Select a few of the questions as the impetus for
class discussion.
