Critical Thinking With TeachThought: Grow Your Teaching

50 Sentence Stems for Reading Critically

Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

There are many ways to help students think for themselves. Guide them to dynamic spaces characterized by people, thought, and creativity.

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.