Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

15 Legitimate Ways Daydreaming Improves Thinking

How Does Daydreaming Improve Thinking? The student’s eyes drift to the classroom window and the teacher’s voice fades from consciousness. […]

The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.

A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.

The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.

What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.

Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.

The development of beliefs based on critical reasoning and quality data is much closer to a science-based approach to critical thinking.

Practicing critical thinking at home–in their ‘native environment’–is a useful strategy to build their cognitive muscles.