Critical Thinking

Everyone’s a Critic:  How to Build Students’ Critical Thinking Skills 

Session Facilitators:  Jill Peterson and Lin Flood

Offered twice on January 5, 2007 from 9 a. m. to 11 a.m. and again from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Location:  Building 1 – Room 211

Thinking skills.  Critical thinking.  Higher-order thinking.  Call it what you want, but the bottom line is, how do you get your students to do it?  This session will identify what “critical thinking” is and is not, and will also teach you how to:

• Improve students’ critical thinking just by changing the way you ask questions
• Use the ideas of Bloom’s taxonomy to build stronger critical thinking into your teaching
• Access technology tools to help incorporate critical thinking into your class – no matter what subject you teach!
• Make small changes in the way you teach that can result in big improvements in students’ thinking skills
• Link critical thinking skills to the subjects that matter most to your students

Objectives:

At the completion of this lesson, the student will:

1. Define critical thinking. (Knowledge)
2. Explain the relationship between Bloom’s Taxonomy and teaching critical thinking skills. (Comprehension)
3. Write an instructional objective relevant to their curriculum using Bloom’s Taxonomy that incorporates higher order critical thinking skills. (Application)
4. Compare and contrast lower order questioning techniques with higher order questioning techniques. (Analysis)
5. Formulate critical thinking questions relevant to key concepts in their curriculum that reflect Bloom’s Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation levels. (Synthesis)
6. Consider the impact that incorporating critical thinking teaching strategies into their current curriculum will have on student learning. (Evaluation)

Cooperative Learning Group Activity Worksheet

Outside Resources 

For Critical Thinking Definitions, Attributes of Critical Thinkers:

1. www.accd.edu/sac/history/keller/ACCDitg/SSCT.htm

For more Critical Tinking definitions and teaching strategies:

2. http://academic.udayton.edu/legaled/CTSkills/CTskills01.htm#what is

For Critical Thinking, Bloom's Taxonomy and Questioning Strategies: 

3. www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php

4. www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/litpack/bloom_handout.htm 

5. http://mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/blooms.htm

6. http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/litpack/BloomsCriticalThinking_files/v3_document.htm

For Effective Teaching Strategies and Lesson Plan Ideas:

7. http://academic.udayton.edu/legaled/CTSkills/CTskills01.htm#what is 

8. http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/sa3effec.htm

9. chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html 

10. www.huntington.edu/education/lessonplanning/Bloom.html

For Bloom's Taxonomy and writing MCQ's (Multiple Choice Questions):

11. http://www.cte.usf.edu/materials/institute/ct/index6.html 

12. cit.necc.mass.edu/atlt/TestCritThink.htm 

Great website by a teacher with lots of great teaching strategies: 

13. http://192.107.108.56/portfolios/m/murray_k/final/bloom.html

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