Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

Some Thoughts On Knowledge And Knowledge Limits

Learning leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to theories just like theories lead to knowledge. It’s all circular in such an obvious way.

Graphic organizers allow students to visualize, order, and categorize concepts using verbal representations & visuals.

Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.

From part to whole to synonyms and antonyms, to cause and effect and step and sequences, here are good examples for teaching with analogies.

How do you know if your students are thinking critically in the classroom? Here are examples that might be good indicators.

With an authentic audience in PBL, inquiry can help students ask important questions like, ‘Who is our audience and what are their needs?’

By forcing students to distill one relationship in order to understand another, it’s almost impossible to solve analogies without understanding.

Can we teach critical thinking in schools? Of course we can. A better question: Are schools designed to teach children to think?