Intro to CT
Introduction to Critical Thinking
Reflective practice and critical thinking sit close to each other but do different work. Reflective practice asks the teacher to look at her own work. Critical thinking is a wider skill that examines claims, evidence, and reasoning regardless of whose practice produced them. The two reinforce each other, but each can be developed in its own right.
A working definition: reasoning based on evidence, self-aware, open-minded, disciplined, resistant to manipulation
Six core skills: analysis, inference, explanation, interpretation, self-regulation, evaluation
Six stages from unreflective to accomplished thinker, from no awareness to fully internalised practice
Why critical thinking matters for clear reasoning, evaluating arguments, creativity, and self-reflection
Venn diagram representation of the self-structure and experience that shape a teacher’s thinking
How Bloom’s six cognitive domains line up with the operations critical thinking depends on
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