Critical thinking skills need to be provided for all children if we want to stir their curiosity and create life-long, curious learners in the process.<\/p>\n
What are the 4 main\/best approaches to critical thinking with young children? How to they ‘look’ in classrooms?<\/p>\n
1. Inquiry – allowing students to explore materials and ideas to build their background knowledge, develop questions and search for answers<\/p>\n
2. Questioning – allowing students to ask open-ended question about what they read and observe with the goal of developing their understanding ofthe task at hand<\/p>\n
3. Problem-Solving – allowing students the time to work with ideas, develop questions and pursue answers<\/p>\n
4. Collaboration – allowing students to work in flexible groups that share information and ideas<\/p>\n
All this ‘allowing’ means providing longer than normal amounts of time to explore topics and concepts. Most will require added pre-training by the teacher to insure students know the steps in each of these skills. Most will not fit into a traditional 30 or 60 minute scheduling box. Most will require additional down time to discuss and research concepts. All will produce in-depth results, many of which will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n
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(Ideas synthesized from my reading and from Stacey Lange’s article presented in Partnership for 21st Century Skills 6-13-14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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