Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking

Jennifer Alfonso-Punzalan

Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking

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I Jukes. (2013, February 26).  Ten takeaway tips for teaching critical thinking.  [Web log comment].  Retrieved from http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/02/26/ten-takeaway-tips-for-teaching-critical-thinking/?utm_source=Committed+Sardines&utm_campaign=cd1c70f855-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

This is a list from Mariko Nobori from Edutopia that gives teachers ten ways to teach or remember to teach critical thinking skills.  The approaches that are described are very student-centered and student-driven.  Use of the Socratic method is important.  So is the scaffolding of desired outcomes, such as using manners when learning to counter-argue a point, using academic language with sentence stems/starters, and using methods such as a fishbowl to learn how to critique one another.

I enjoyed reading this short blog because, as a teacher and (hopefully, one day a teacher-librarian) I aim to get to the heart of what my students want to learn, to help them push themselves to think more critically, and to find the answers that they seek.