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Beyond Thinking Classrooms

Beyond Thinking Classrooms

Usha James, in collaboration with Garfield Gini-Newman, Laura Gini-Newman, Maria Vamvalis and Warren Woytuck, presents a renewed mission that offers a framework for critical inquiry, stressing quality thinking that leads to student action. This article first appeared in Principal Connections, Summer…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Teaching Students to Use Criteria

Teaching Students to Use Criteria

This resource clearly explains the importance of criteria in critical thinking. When students are invited to respond to critical questions, criteria enable them to carefully weigh the options and make reasoned judgments about those questions. The resource provides teachers with practical tools and s…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Reading as thinking: “Critically” constructing meaning of text

Reading as thinking: “Critically” constructing meaning of text

Mary Abbott tells how critically thoughtful readers approach text with an inquisitive mindset when teachers nurture self-regulated use of intellectual tools.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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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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Making critical thinking an integral part of electronic research

Making critical thinking an integral part of electronic research

Roland Case considers inadequacies in efforts to support critical thinking about technology and the Internet and offers helpful ideas developed by teacher-librarians working with TC2.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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From “finding out” to “thinking about”: Changing research assignments into critical challenges

From “finding out” to “thinking about”: Changing research assignments into critical challenges

Patricia Finlay shares her experiences as a teacher-librarian who shifted from teaching traditional research skills to supporting students with information problem solving.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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