Critical Thinking

I recently asked my students to reflect on our first unit of study and present their reflections to me. They needed to identify and explain what they learned using the Foundation for Critical Think…

Critical thinking is all the rage in education, and that’s a good thing. But for a parent, the idea of critical thinking can be kind of vague…

Keep critical thinking alive in your classroom with this 18in x 24in full color poster. Classrooms taught with the Forde-Ferrier method have consistently seen student pass rates above 90% and exemplary rates over 50%. This poster is our latest addition in providing teachers with learning tools that help students think critically in their studies. It features the six keys to critical thinking, based on Bloom's taxonomy: REMEMBER, ANALYZE, UNDERSTAND, EVALUATE, APPLY, and CREATE. Remember: Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory. Analyze: Separate a whole into parts and determine their relationships. Understand: Construct meaning from instructional messages. Evaluate: Make judgments based on criteria and standards. Apply: Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation. Create: Combine elements or ideas to form a new whole.

Keep critical thinking alive in your classroom with this 18in x 24in full color poster. Classrooms taught with the Forde-Ferrier method have consistently seen student pass rates above 90% and exemplary rates over 50%. This poster is our latest addition in providing teachers with learning tools that help students think critically in their studies. It features the six keys to critical thinking, based on Bloom's taxonomy: REMEMBER, ANALYZE, UNDERSTAND, EVALUATE, APPLY, and CREATE. Remember: Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory. Analyze: Separate a whole into parts and determine their relationships. Understand: Construct meaning from instructional messages. Evaluate: Make judgments based on criteria and standards. Apply: Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation. Create: Combine elements or ideas to form a new whole.

Critical thinking is a goal-directed process of approaching and evaluating problems, drawing on a number of different skills.

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“Great series of questions for deeper, critical thinking!”

Question stems can be a powerful part of promoting critical thinking. Check out these 25+ stems framed around the early Bloom's Taxonomy.

This is inspired by the canonical “5 W’s (and 1H)” questions of the ancient art of journalism. Original work.