Teaching Critical Thinking Skills to Our Students

EDZU 9978 (3 credits / 45 hours)

Location: Online
Instructor: Barry Kaufman

Start Date: 02/28/2024
End Date: 04/02/2024

Course Syllabus

The ability to think critically is more important now than it ever has been. Critical thinking skills impacts every area of a child’s academic experience Students who can “do” math, but don’t understand “why, lack critical thinking skills. Students who can put sentences together grammatically correct, but can’t respond to a writing inquiry meaningfully lack critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is a learnable skill that allows us to make logical and informed decisions to the best of our ability. This course takes a nuts and bolts approach to teaching critical thinking. It will give teaches a variety of suggestions for integrating critical thinking activities into their disciplinary courses with a focus on current events.

Teachers enrolled in this course will...

Know

• basic principles of critical thinking
• effective techniques for integrating critical thinking into the classroom
• effective techniques for improving critical thinking skills of your students

Understand

• why critical thinking is important in a student’s overall success
• 5.risk of students who lack critical thinking skills

and Be Able To

• identify “critical thinking opportunities ” and turn them into learning experiences
• use “critical thinking” as a tool for student’s overall learning experiences