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Great Circle Learning is a training and educational services company specializing in helping companies and organizations develop their employees' ability to perform effectively through the use of critical thinking.  And, to help Training and Development staff  improve their productivity by using our tools including  LeaderGuide Pro ™ and trainingcontent.com Please use the links above to learn more about LeaderGuide Pro™ and to discover what we offer through trainingcontent.com. To learn more about and to purchase our Guide to Mentoring click on the link. About GCLearning Services Products Critical Thinking ... Site Map Great Circle Learning 687 South Collier Blvd., Marco Island, FL 34145 Tel: 239-389-2000 Fax: 239-389-0569 Email: info@gclearning.com Great Circle Learning Web site by Notorious Technologies, Inc.

22. Coaching Winners: How To Teach Critical Thinking Template source file for critical thinking Across the Curriculum project. http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/ctac/winners.htm

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project Coaching Winners: How to Teach Critical Thinking Contributed by Bonnie W. Duldt-Battey, Ph.D. RN 2921 Bellflower Drive Antioch, CA 94531 Phone: 925-706-0442 Fax: 925-706-0621 Email: bwbattey@comcast.net Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing Samuel Merritt College, Oakland, Ca. Website: http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/depts/nursing/duldt (Author of SmartPrim - software for teaching Critical Thinking ) Coaching Winners: How to Teach Critical Thinking There is a new twist to the ageless issue of who is to teach what when how, to whom , and with what effect . The new twist is critical thinking. We, the faculty (who), are to teach critical thinking (what) throughout the curriculum (when), somehow (how) to all health care professional students (to whom) so that the new practitioners will be able to function effectively and creatively (with what effect) in the changing arena of health care after the year 2000. Somehow or other, in a manner and by a method not stated, known, or clearly understood, we, the faculty, are to do this. As faculty, we are the very ones, to a significant degree, who are alumni of an educational system which historically has omitted the very thing we are now to teach. In fact, there is some research which shows that the critical thinking ability of the faculty was not significantly higher than that of their sophomore nursing students if age is statistically controlled as a factor. Fortunately, most teachers are "renaissance" people who are talented in researching, learning, reviving, and adapting information to meet contemporary needs. We can do this. Somehow. The purpose of this paper is to propose a plan of action for meeting this new challenge. I am not suggesting it is

23. Free Critical Thinking Worksheets critical thinking worksheets for teachers. Used in engaging students in the advanced levels of thinking. http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/critical_thinking/

Curriculum Lesson Plans Organizers Rubrics ... Critical Thinking Worksheets WORKSHEET CATEGORIES: Back To School Holidays Rubrics Country Worksheets ... Worksheet Makers Critical Thinking Worksheets Areas: Brain Teasers A great way to stimulate thinking. Don't worry, they come complete with answer keys. Compare and Contrast Students examine differences and similarities in a variety situations. Fact And Opinion Students determine the validity of a body of work. How Many Are There? Fun activities for examining patterns. Internet Search Worksheets - Fun Internet searches for students. Logic Puzzle Each scenario is thought provoking. Lots of brain power needed here. Making Predictions A good warm-up for inferences.

24. Critical Thinking Sites on critical thinking. critical thinking Skills In Higher Education settings. critical thinking Community - A site for both the K-12 and Higher http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/critical_thinking/

Curriculum Lesson Plans Organizers Rubrics ... Critical Thinking -What it is and why it counts? Critical thinking is... - Practical strategies for critical thinking. Critical Thinking Skills - In Higher Education settings. Critical Thinking Community - A site for both the K-12 and Higher Ed. professional. Just Think Foundation - Teaches young people to understand the words and images in media, to produce their own media messages and to think for themselves. Mission Critical - An interactive tutorial for critical thinking, in which you will be introduced to basic concepts through sets of instructions and exercises. The Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique and the Foundation - For Critical thinking, two sister educational non-profit organizations, work closely together to promote educational reform. We seek to promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fair-minded critical thinking. The Disposition Toward Critical Thinking - Examines a set of characterological attributes thought to be associated with developing success at critical thinking.

25. An Introduction To Critical Thinking This economic pressure to teach critical thinking skills will fall on Remember, as you teach critical thinking, teach also why it is worthwhile. http://www.freeinquiry.com/critical-thinking.html

AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THINKING by Steven D. Schafersman January, 1991 Introduction to Critical Thinking Critical thinking is an important and vital topic in modern education. All educators are interested in teaching critical thinking to their students. Many academic departments hope that its professors and instructors will become informed about the strategy of teaching critical thinking skills, identify areas in one's courses as the proper place to emphasize and teach critical thinking, and develop and use some problems in exams that test students' critical thinking skills. This critical thinking manual has been prepared to inform and aid you to accomplish these things, and it has been kept brief and straightforward so that all faculty members will have the time and opportunity to read it and follow the suggestions it contains. Purpose and Rationale of Teaching Critical Thinking The purpose of specifically teaching critical thinking in the sciences or any other discipline is to improve the thinking skills of students and thus better prepare them to succeed in the world. But, you may ask, don't we automatically teach critical thinking when we teach our subjects, especially mathematics and science, the two disciplines which supposedly epitomize correct and logical thinking? The answer, sadly, is often no. Please consider these two quotations: "It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet seldom teach them anything about learning." Donald Norman, 1980, "Cognitive engineering and education," in

26. Critical Thinking And Its Relation To Science And Humanism teachING critical thinking. It is strange that we expect students to learn, This economic pressure to teach critical thinking skills will fall on http://www.freeinquiry.com/critical-notes.html

CRITICAL THINKING AND ITS RELATION TO SCIENCE AND HUMANISM Also known as Logical Thinking, Analytical Thinking, Reasonable Thinking, Higher-Order Thinking, Reasoning Skills, and, as we shall see, SCIENTIFIC THINKING. CRITICAL THINKING is not just Logical Thinking, because one has to have confidence in one's values, premises, and beliefs before one can reason logically from them. CRITICAL THINKING encompasses the entire process of obtaining, comprehending, analyzing, evaluating, internalizing, and acting upon knowledge and values. Critical Thinking means correct thinking in the pursuit of relevant and reliable knowledge and values about the world. Critical Thinking is reasonable, reflective, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. A person who thinks critically can ask appropriate questions, gather relevant information, efficiently and creatively sort through this information, reason logically from this information, and come to reliable and trustworthy conclusions about the world that enable one to live and act successfully in it. A person who practices Critical Thinking can achieve a productive, successful, ethical, happy, and, ultimately, a satisfying and fulfilling life. I believe it is impossible to achieve self-actualization without practicing critical thinking.

27. ED326304 90 How Can We Teach Critical Thinking The topic of teaching students to think while readingcritical Carr, Kathryn S. How Can We teach critical thinking? Childhood http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/files/critthnk.html

How Can We Teach Critical Thinking? Kathryn S. Carr Source: Carr, K. (1990). How can we teach critical thinking ? Urbana, IL. ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. [ED326304] Return to: Readings in Educational Psychology Educational Psychology Interactive The need to teach higher order thinking skills is not a recent one. Education pundits have called for renewed interest in problem solving for years. As far back as 1967, Raths, Jonas, Rothstein and Wassermann (1967) decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the schools. They noted that "...memorization, drill, homework, the three Rs and the quiet classroom" were rewarded, while "...inquiry, reflection and the consideration of alternatives were frowned upon." That students are lagging in problem-solving and thinking skills is apparent at all levels of education. However, critical thinking courses and texts, in particular, may result in fragmentation of thinking skills. Thinking cannot be divorced from content; in fact, thinking is a way of learning content (Raths and others, 1967). In

28. Educational Psychology Interactive: Critical Thinking We have learned that while it is possible to teach critical thinking and its How can we teach critical thinking? ERIC Digest. (ERIC NO. ED326304). http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/critthnk.html

Critical Thinking: An Overview Citation: Huitt, W. (1998). Critical thinking: An overview. Educational Psychology Interactive . Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State University. Retrieved [date] from, http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/critthnk.html . [Revision of paper presented at the Critical Thinking Conference sponsored by Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, March, 1993 Overview of the Cognitive System Home Page Critical thinking is an important issue in education today The movement to the information age The purpose of this brief overview is to review what we know about critical thinking, how it might be differentiated from creative thinking, and to suggest future research and implementation activities Definition has changed over the past decade The definition of critical thinking has changed somewhat over the past decade. Originally the dominion of cognitive psychologists and philosophers, behaviorally-oriented psychologists and content specialists have recently joined the discussion. The following are some examples of attempts to define critical thinking: ...the ability to analyze facts, generate and organize ideas, defend opinions, make comparisons, draw inferences, evaluate arguments and solve problems (Chance,1986, p. 6);

29. Teach Kids Critical Thinking Skills Thinkology Grades K3 Platform Windows, Macintosh teach Kids critical. http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A1954.cfm

August 2005 Teach Kids Critical Thinking Skills September 1997 - Software/Courseware Thinkology Grades: K-3 Platform: Windows, Macintosh Teach Kids Critical Thinking Skills The first title in the series, Clarity, is available now and attempts to show students how to effectively communicate using clear ideas, clear goals, clear questions and clear conclusions. Two forthcoming titles will highlight the accuracy and logic critical thinking skills. Write 412 on Inquiry Card Feature Editorial Applications Ed-Tech Trends ... Contests If you have comments or questions about our Magazine features or stories, please email the editorial staff at editorial@thejournal.com . If you have any comments or questions about subscriptions, please email subscriptions@thejournal.com . If you have comments or questions about this website, contact us at webmaster@thejournal.com Application Development Trends Campus Technology CertCities.com ... TechMentor . See our var MenuLinkedBy='AllWebMenus [2]', awmBN='508'; awmAltUrl='';

30. How Can We Teach Critical Thinking? ERIC Digest. That students are lagging in problemsolving and thinking skills is apparent at all levels of education. However, critical thinking courses and texts, http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9218/critical.htm

Site Links Home Search for ERIC Digests About Libraries ... Espanol ERIC Identifier Publication Date Author : Carr, Kathryn S. Source : ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education Urbana IL. How Can We Teach Critical Thinking? ERIC Digest. The need to teach higher order thinking skills is not a recent one. Education pundits have called for renewed interest in problem solving for years. As far back as 1967, Raths, Jonas, Rothstein and Wassermann (1967) decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the schools. They noted that "...memorization, drill, homework, the three Rs [and the] quiet classroom" were rewarded, while "...inquiry, reflection [and] the consideration of alternatives [were] frowned upon." That students are lagging in problem-solving and thinking skills is apparent at all levels of education. However, critical thinking courses and texts, in particular, may result in fragmentation of thinking skills. Thinking cannot be divorced from content; in fact, thinking is a way of learning content (Raths and others, 1967). In every course, and especially in content subjects, students should be taught to think logically, analyze and compare, question and evaluate. Skills taught in isolation do little more than prepare students for tests of isolated skills (Spache and Spache, 1986). The same criticism may be made with regard to commercial thinking skills materials. However, when such materials are integrated with content, they may become effective tools for attacking real issues.

31. WWW LINKS TO RESOURCES FOR TEACHING THINKING Mission critical interactive tutorials teach critical thinking ( San Jose State University ) http//www2.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/ http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/links~1.html

WWW LINKS TO RESOURCES FOR TEACHING REASONING AND CRITICAL THINKING Compiled by William Peirce Prince George's Community College (Updated June 2004) Maryland Community College Consortium for Teaching Reasoning http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR Teaching Thinking Network of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development http://www.usd.edu/thinking Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) http://www.eric.ed.gov/ Search the ERIC database for articles on teaching thinking in your discipline. ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation http://ericae.net/ Excellent resource until closed by the U.S. Dept. of Education Foundation for Critical Thinking http://www.criticalthinking.org Writing Center for Faculty at University of Delaware http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/staff/index.htm Excellent tip sheets for faculty across the curriculum on topics such as building written and oral communication into your classroom, responding to student writing, managing the paper load, peer review, grading rubrics, and managing grammar.

32. I Can Read ! - How Phonics Teaches Critical Thinking All five groups that attempted to teach critical thinking skills and selfesteem directly (or indirectly though the encouragement of self-directed http://projectpro.com/ICR/Phonics/CriticalThinking.htm

How Phonics Instruction Teaches Critical Thinking Skills Phonics Critics Have It Backwards A common misconception about phonics is that it consists entirely of rote memorization, and that it stunts children's intellectual development by limiting their opportunities for the development of critical thinking skills - but this is actually the opposite of the reality. Children who learn to read using phonics develop superior critical thinking skills because phonics instruction automatically teaches many aspects of formal logic, which is the foundation of all critical thinking. One of the most surprising outcomes in the entire field of education research was the unexpectedly high performance of phonics students participating in the world's largest-ever educational experiment, Project Follow-Through . One purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of early-elementary students who were being taught to read using various teaching strategies. At the end of the study, the strategies were evaluated according to the students' performance on tests that evaluated three things: basic skills critical thinking skills self esteem The study consisted of nine experimental groups, each using a different approach to reading instruction, and one control group whose teachers were using the standard methods that they had always used in the past. The reading study in Project Follow-Through was quite large, consisting of about 15,000 students spread throughout many school districts.

33. EduBlog Insights Using Comments to teach critical thinking I think that is a good way to write because the way you put your words in it. You make it seem like you was http://anvil.gsu.edu/EduBlogInsights/2005/01/10

34. TeachOne Critical Thinking And Scientific Method teach the three C s of science Curiosity, Creativity, and critical thinking critical thinking Community These links are tailored to the needs of http://teachone.tripod.com/thinking/

- TeachOne - Critical Thinking and Scientific Method       You may browse by scrolling down or go directly to a category by clicking on it. I have recently come to the conclusion that as educators, we should teach the three C's of science: Curiosity, Creativity, and Critical thinking and doing. These three things fuel that human endeavor we call science and this greatly benefits humanity. Main Categories: Critical Thinking Scientific Method Critical Thinking Critical Thinking Community   These links are tailored to the needs of Primary and Secondary Educators and Administrators interested in developing their own critical thinking skills and those of their students The Skeptics Society Visit their on-line store for useful video tapes and publications is an excellent source of books for classroom use. Donald Simanek's page A look at science, psuedoscience and skepticism with insight and humor. The Skeptic's Dictionary claims to have "over 400 definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural, and pseudoscientific ideas and practices, and how to think critically about them." Google's Directory: Skeptical Inquiry Frankly, if you bookmark this Google site you may not need mine.

35. EdSTAR Minnesota > Curricular And Instructional Issues > Essays The topic of teaching students to think while readingcritical readingshould be How can we teach critical thinking? Childhood Education, 6973. http://edstar.ncrel.org/mn/ViewEssay.asp?IssueID=39&EssayID=94

36. IRC Teaching Resources Guide Faculty who teach successful critical thinking courses employ skills that are quite different from those needed to teach more traditional lecture courses. http://www.irc.uci.edu/trg/32.html

Contents Designing Courses for Student Learning Suggestions for the Design of Critical Thinking Courses Suggestions for the Design of Critical Thinking Courses Joanne Gainen Kurfiss, Teaching and Learning Center Santa Clara University 1. An emphasis on thinking about discipline-related problems, questions, and issues permeates the course. The course is organized around problems, issues, and questions, generally set in some realistic context and for which there is no clear "right answer." Issues, problems, and open-ended questions form the basis for reading assignments, in-class activities, projects, and examinations. (In deterministic fields, problems more often have correct answers. In these subjects, teachers emphasize ways to arrive at solutions so students develop flexible thinking habits. See for example Schoenfeld, 1985; James and Nelson, 1981.) Rather than try to "cover" a pre-determined body of knowledge, the professor uses problems to motivate and guide student inquiry while helping them learn about the discipline and its methods. 2. The course exposes students to multiple perspectives on each topic introduced.

37. Critical And Creative Thinking of critical and creative thinking into the subjects which they teach. An integral part of teaching methodologies designed to foster critical and http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/policy/cels/el4.html

Chapter IV: Critical and Creative Thinking: The goal of incorporating critical and creative thinking processes into Saskatchewan's K-12 curricula is to develop individuals who value knowledge, learning and the creative process, who can and will think for themselves, yet recognize the limits of individual reflection and the need to contribute to and build upon mutual understandings of social situations. What is desired are students who have purposes for learning, know how and when to question, who recognize when more information is needed and the type of knowledge which is required, know how to find and organize information, and who can generate and evaluate a number of alternatives to human problems. Definition Rationale The Teacher's Role Teachers as models ... Summary Definition Critical and Creative Thinking can be described as qualities of good thinking processes and as types of thinking. Creative thinking is generally considered to be involved with the creation or generation of ideas, processes, experiences or objects; critical thinking is concerned with their evaluation. Critical and creative thinking are interrelated and complementary aspects of thinking. Almost all of the thinking which we undertake contains some critical and some creative aspects. For example, when we try to solve real life problems we move back and forth several times between creative and critical reflection2 as we develop solutions or weigh the consequences of any one solution. It is important, therefore, that any attempts to improve thinking abilities pay attention to both critical and creative aspects of thinking.

38. CRITICAL THINKING Based on our experience, we teach critical thinking in two major phases. The first phase is teaching students what critical thinking is and what the major http://www.amsc.belvoir.army.mil/roy.html

DEVELOPING THINKING SKILLS: CRITICAL THINKING AT THE ARMY MANAGEMENT STAFF COLLEGE Roy Eichhorn, Strategic Systems Department Army Management Staff College Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5934 Abstract Critical thinking is the ability to be in control of one’s thinking. It includes the ability to consciously examine the elements of one’s reasoning, or that of another, and evaluate that reasoning against universal intellectual standards - clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, and logic. It also involves the structured examination of sources of information. The Army Management Staff College (AMSC) has included critical thinking in its curriculum overtly since January of 1991. Since then, it has moved from teaching "about" critical thinking to progressively embedding critical thinking into the learning process throughout the curriculum. The ultimate goal is for an AMSC student to become deeply immersed in critical thinking throughout the College curriculum, internalize it as the curriculum proceeds, and to return with that habit of thinking so firmly established that it becomes normal. INTRODUCTION A primary task of any educational institution is to develop the students who go there. Development may take many forms, but the main goal of the Army Management Staff College (AMSC) is the development of leadership, management, and decision making skills. We believe that underlying these skills is the ability to exercise consequential/critical thinking. (For the sake of convenience, we hereafter just use "critical thinking .") Although we include critical thinking in all the College’s programs, my remarks in this paper will be addressing the Sustaining Base Leadership and Management Program.

39. Teaching Ct By taking the time to teach critical and creative thinking skills to students, we are not only teaching them the skill that will allow them to learn any http://www.epcc.edu/Special/Critical/teaching ct.htm

Think Bank A Repository for Critical and Creative Thinking Resources Building Bridges Across the Curriculum EPCC Home Collaborative Think Bank Home Introduction to Critical Thinking ... Misc. learning and teaching critical thinking As educators we are many times faced with the question: Which should we teach, critical thinking or the facts? There are times when we must realize there is a tradeoff between content and critical thinking and that less content and more critical thinking in the classroom will generate a more effective student in any given discipline. In addition, we as faculty defeat ourselves by maintaining a skewed sense of what must go on in the classroom and of what we can expect from our students. By taking the time to teach critical and creative thinking skills to students, we are not only teaching them the skill that will allow them to learn any given discipline on their own, we are teaching them to cope and persevere as they work their way up the ladder in their field and as they face head on and grapple with the most challenging encounters in their fields and in their everyday lives. Coaching Winners: How to Teach Critical Thinking Curriculum Handbook Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Critical Teaching ... The Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence Site designed by Tony Procell, May 2004

40. Home The following section, teaching critical thinking, contains resources that will help instructors hopefully teach critical and creative thinking in addition http://www.epcc.edu/Special/Critical/home.htm

Think Bank A Repository for Critical and Creative Thinking Resources Building Bridges Across the Curriculum EPCC Home Collaborative Intro to Critical Thinking Reasoning ... Francis Bacon Instructors may have unique teaching strategies, but there is an underlying core that connects all instruction. Critical and creative thinking, the process of generating ideas and analyzing them, is common to to all disciplines and should be a skill that needs to be taken beyond any instructional institution and into every walk of life. However, the inculcation of critical and creative thinking rests largely on the educational arena. Therefore, it becomes the responsibility of instructors to instill critical and creative thinking among students. purpose The purpose of this site is to explore and share teaching heuristics presented by resources located throughout the web that are appropriate to the community college classroom. More specifically, the resources found here target practices which promote the goal of critical and creative thinking. This criteria opens broadly to a field of teaching/learning strategies and techniques. Good teaching includes critical and creative thinking as part of an approach to learning, and the ability to think critically and creatively is a desired outcome of the educational experience at El Paso Community College. how this all works This site is broken down to five main sections: Introduction to Critical Thinking, Reasoning, Application, Teaching Critical Thinking and Miscellaneous.

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