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

By Nancy Burkhalter

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
• 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