by TeachThought Staff
Critical Thinking
As an organization, critical thinking is at the core of what we do, from essays and lists to models and teacher training. (You can check out What It Means To Think Critically for a wordier survey of the intent of critical thinking.)
For this post, we’ve gathered various critical thinking resources. As you’ll notice, conversation is a fundamental part of critical thinking, if for no other reason than the ability to identify a line of reasoning, analyze, evaluate, and respond to it accurately and thoughtfully is among the most common opportunities for critical thinking for students in everyday life. Who is saying what? What’s valid and what’s not? How should I respond?
This varied and purposely broad collection includes resources for teaching critical thinking, from books and videos to graphics and models, rubrics and taxonomies to presentations and debate communities. Take a look, and let us know in the comments which you found the most–or least–useful.
And for something in the way of specific training for staff, there’s always Professional Development on Critical Thinking provided by TeachThought.
25 Of The Best Resources For Teaching Critical Thinking
1. The TeachThought Taxonomy for Understanding, a taxonomy of thinking tasks broken up into 6 categories, with 6 tasks per category
2. A Collection Of Research On Critical Thinking by criticalthinking.org
3. It’s difficult to create a collection of critical thinking resources without talking about failures in thinking, so here’s A Logical Fallacies Primer in PowerPoint format.
4. The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Test (it’s not free, but you can check out some samples here)
5. 6 Hats Thinking, a model for divergent thinking.
6. 4 Strategies for Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
7. An Intro To Critical Thinking, a 10-minute video from wireless philosophy that takes given premises, and walks the viewer through valid and erroneous conclusions
8. Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers by Terry Heick
9. A Printable Flip Chart For Critical Thinking Questions (probably easier to buy one for a few bucks, but there it is nonetheless)
11. A Collection Of Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters
12. 6 Facets of Understanding by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
13. A 3D Model of Bloom’s Taxonomy
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