Ask students to create a list of Critical Thinking Skills and explain how they work.
In Your Operator’s Manual for Success — Critical Thinking Skills are your power tools.
Choose an athletic event, a historical event students have studied — or a movie/novel/short story with which they are familiar.
Prompt them with questions, applying Critical Thinking to the subject to better understand it.
Explain how they work.
- observing
- analyzing
- interpreting
- reflecting
- evaluating
- inferring meaning
- understanding what’s happening
- problem solving
- making decisions