Critical Thinking Now - Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms Around the World

Teaching critical thinking requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and assessment methods. This book lays out a blueprint to do just that. Specifically, it outlines the necessary components of a critical thinking classroom and provides assessment techniques and ample exercises adaptable to any student's field, age, or level of education.

List of contents

Foreword: Michelle Foshee, University of Washington
Preface: Why I Wrote This Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: How Culture Colors Cognition
Chapter 2: What is Critical Thinking?
Chapter 3: The Critical Thinking Classroom
Chapter 4: Assessing Critical Thinking
Chapter 5: Teaching Critical Thinking in Other Cultures
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1: Curriculum for Teaching Persuasive Essays to Elementary School Children
Appendix 2: Bloom's Taxonomy Action Verbs
Appendix 3: To the Moon!
Appendix 4: Annotated Resources
References
About the Author
Index

About the author

Nancy Burkhalter, PhD, is the author of many scholarly articles about the cognitive processes of writing and teaching critical thinking. Trained as a linguist, educator, and writer, she teaches academic writing to international students at Seattle University.

Summary

Teaching critical thinking requires sustained, finely tuned teaching and assessment methods. This book lays out a blueprint to do just that. Specifically, it outlines the necessary components of a critical thinking classroom and provides assessment techniques and ample exercises adaptable to any student's field, age, or level of education.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Burkhalter, Burkhalter Nancy, Nancy Burkhalter
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781475827514
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-2751-4
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching staff, Teaching skills & techniques, Curriculum planning & development, Multicultural education, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, Teaching staff / Educators