- Exercising sound reasoning in understanding
- Making complex choices and decisions
- Understanding the interconnections among systems
- Identifying and asking significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
- Framing, analyzing and synthesizing information in order to solve problems and answer questions
Additional information about these skills is listed below.
Destination ImagiNation, Inc. seeks to be the world's foremost non-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting three critical life skills among learners at all levels: Creativity, Teamwork, and Problem-Solving. These three life skills and the process in which they are implemented form the core of the organization's value system.
2. Overview of Critical Thinking and Bloom's Taxonomy
This site gives an overview of critical thinking as it relates to Bloom's taxonomy, and lists numerous useful online resources on the subject.
3. Georgia's Critical Thinking Skills Program
The Georgia Critical Thinking Skills Program, or Georgia's Effective Teaching Strategies (GETS) Program was designed to promote thinking and learning in the classroom. The Program centers around instructional strategies teachers use in the classroom to teach content while promoting critical, creative, and independent thinking.
4. Critical Thinking Lesson Plans - Univerity of North Carolina
Lesson plans in the UNC Chapel Hill School of Education database relating to critical thinking.
5. Critical Thinking Resources for Teachers
This web site published by East Tennessee State University shows teachers how to design activities and assignments that require and teach critical thinking.
6. Integrating Critical Thinking Skills Into the Classroom
How to article on incorporating these skills into classroom teaching.
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