Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Classroom

This course will present ideas for implementing critical and creative thinking in the classroom, as well as strategies for teaching higher-order thinking skills. The course will provide opportunities to practice and incorporate thinking skills into the classroom curriculum and the learning environment.

Topics and Objectives

Recognizing Critical Thinking

  • Define critical thinking.
  • Analyze the value of critical thinking.
  • Describe logical fallacies and how to recognize them.
  • Identify the various approaches to thinking skills instruction.
  • Analyze ways to enhance classroom instruction by using thinking skills.
  • Compare and contrast lesson plans used in the classroom.

Creativity, Intelligence, and Thinking Skills

  • Identify how creativity happens in the classroom.
  • Describe different "Thinking Frames" that increase creative thinking.
  • Analyze the critical thinking process from a multicultural perspective.
  • Summarize Howard Gardner's eight intelligences.

Enhancing the Learning Experience

  • Analyze the cognitive processes of Bloom's Taxonomy and their relationship to critical thinking.
  • Analyze the effect of teachers' questions and learning activities on the cognitive behavior of students in relationship to Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • Identify how cooperative learning enhances interpersonal intelligence.
  • Analyze different programming options for gifted learners.

Critical Thinking Lesson Plans

  • Investigate ways to incorporate thinking skills into reading and comprehension, writing, science, and social studies instruction.
  • Compare and contrast various ways to assess critical thinking in the classroom.
  • Develop lesson plans that address critical thinking.

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