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Critical, creative and collaborative thinking: A three-sided coin?

Critical, creative and collaborative thinking: A three-sided coin?

Beate Plance and Roland Case describe four ways to fortify widely used “thinking” activities to better support 3C thinking among educators and students.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
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Telling the story of a graph

Telling the story of a graph

Duff Porteus tells how one critical thinking activity involving linear relations completely transformed his math class.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: 10, 11, 12
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Reconciling learning the ‘basics’ and inquiry teaching

Reconciling learning the ‘basics’ and inquiry teaching

In this article, the staff of The Critical Thinking Consortium seek to explain how learning the basics and inquiry teaching can be reconciled.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Our journey into critical thinking

Our journey into critical thinking

John Weinshel tells how teachers at Benjamin Banneker Middle School worked with TC2 staff on a professional development project to enhance their students’ thinking and understanding.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Taking seriously the teaching of critical thinking

Taking seriously the teaching of critical thinking

In this article, Roland Case and Ian Wright use numerous examples to describe ways of effectively promoting critical thinking in social studies.
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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A math pedagogy designed to empower learners

A math pedagogy designed to empower learners

Laura Gini-Newman outlines a new pedagogical approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics that is focused on building student capacity to reason mathematically through critical inquiry.
Subjects: Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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