This book provides practical information for teachers on developing their students' critical thinking skills. Ensuring that students leave school with good critical thinking skills has become a high priority over the last few years. This highly practical book provides effective strategies for developing these skills. The strategies can be adapted for all age ranges. This highly practical series contains a wide range of books of importance to teachers, trainees and NQTs. Each book is packed with ready-to-use activities to be used in the classroom. They are quick and easy to dip into: each technique is presented on the left-hand page, and the facing right-hand page shows a practical activity to put that technique into practice.
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Offers practical information for teachers on developing their students' critical thinking skills. This practical book provides strategies for developing these skills.
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - What Is Critical Thinking?; Chapter 2 - Rational Thought; Chapter 3 - Formal Debate; Chapter 4 - Tools of Critical Thinking Criticality and Meta-Level Tools of Reflection; Chapter 5 - What Is Philosophy?; Chapter 6 - Moral and Ethical Reflection; Chapter 7 - Critical Teaching: Bringing It All Together; Appendix; Remembering Emerald Elf - An Illustrative Children's Story.
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Provides practical information for teachers on developing their students' critical thinking skills.
Developing good critical thinking skills in young has become an essential part of school life. In the Children's Plan Ed Ball's emphaised the need to enhance pupils thinking skills to respond to employers' requirements.
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This highly practical series contains a wide range of books of importance to teachers, trainees and NQTs. Each book is packed with ready-to-use activities to be used in the classroom. They are quick and easy to dip into: each technique is presented on the left-hand page, and the facing right-hand page shows a practical activity to put that technique into practice.
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Product details

ISBN
9780826435439
Published
2009-11-30
Publisher
Vendor
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Weight
184 gr
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
136

Author

Biographical note

Mal Leicester is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham.