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The Importance of Teaching Critical Thinking - 3 views

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  • many students are leaving the K-12 education system lacking the critical thinking skills that are necessary to succeed in higher education or in the workplace
  • the need to have better scores on assessments is just one of them
  • list critical thinking as a major intellectual and practical skill,
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  • that learning requires effort, but critical thinking requires maximum exertion of intellectual capability and that students and teachers alike find critical thinking discomforting because it requires personal reflection.
  • focus on enhancing critical thinking skills in K-12 can add academic rigor and increase the scores on the standardized assessments
  • understand why
  • Critical thinking can be infused in lessons throughout all disciplines by utilizing in depth questioning and evaluation of both data and sources (
  • o engage students in critical thinking, the educator needs to act as a facilitator to allow for discussion and encourage a freer thought process, as well as to encourage understanding that thinking critically does not always end with a right answer, but instead sometimes ends in more questions or differing evaluations of the topic
  • writing essays and utilizing questions that adhere to Bloom’s Taxonomy higher order thinking are examples of ways to engage students in critical thinking in the classroom
  • the use of wikis in education.  This activity can be utilized by having students create a wiki about the subject content they are studying or by having them analyze the information currently available in existing wikis
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