Podcasts and Videos

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Re: thinking education is an opportunity to listen to organic conversations between colleagues and partners from The Critical Thinking Consortium as they grapple with important pedagogical issues. Each episode will pull back the curtain on their critical, creative, and collaborative thinking and provide an opportunity for listeners to learn and reflect on their own practices.

You may also wish to browse through our selection of episodes from other organizations that have featured TC² facilitators and other team members as guests, discussing a wide variety of topics related to critical thinking.

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Professional learning videos

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Understanding critical thinking

This video, prepared with support from The Learning Network, explains the core features of the TC2 definition of critical thinking. (4:32 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Nurturing a Thinking Classroom: Strategy #2

Usha James shares the second of five strategies to help nurture a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Nurturing a Thinking Classroom: Strategy #1

Usha James shares the first of five strategies to help nurture a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Critical Thinking, Assessment and Intellectual Tools

Garfield Gini-Newman discusses ways that critical thinking and assessment can play together in a university setting, while distinguishing between assessment 'of' and assessment 'for' learning. (2:50 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: Post-secondary

Our hidden heroes are super heroes

In this video, grade six students from Georgia Avenue Community School introduce their hidden hero and their teacher explains the project that inspired students to acknowledge a personal hidden hero. (3:29 minutes)
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: 2, 4, 5, 6

Nurturing a Thinking Classroom: Strategy #3

Usha James shares the third of five strategies to help nurture a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12