Rockfeather. Brighthubeducation. Written by: Margo Dill • edited by: SForsyth • updated: 1/4/2012 Teachers can provide opportunities for critical thinking skills for gifted students in the regular classroom or as part of a gifted program.
Critical thinking skills require either analysis, evaluation, synthesis, or comparison of information presented in lectures or books. Class DiscussionsTeachers can encourage critical thinking skills, and gifted students can develop them through in-depth class discussions. Students can pose their own questions, or teachers can ask questions where students have to do more than just recall facts. For example, if you're studying the causes of the Civil War with your fifth grade class, you could ask them a simple question like: what are the causes of the Civil War?
BrainWise Program - Decision Making in Teens. "I've taught 'thinking skills' to teens for the past twenty years, but BrainWise puts the skills together in one program.
The Lesson Plans make it easy to teach rather difficult abstract concepts. It is exciting to see the students use their new thinking skills to stop and think and avoid problem situations. The concepts are retained, too -- even by students who took the course three years ago! " – Marsha Harman, School Counselor Teaching children and teenagers critical thinking and decision making skills requires that certain specific concepts be introduced, applied, used, and reinforced.
In the BrainWise curricula, instructors receive comprehensive lesson plans that are flexible and adaptable to the instructor's situation.To give the students sufficient exposure and practice with these concepts, the program is divided into two distinct stages. This section of the curricula introduces students to a series of skills called the 10 Wise Ways. Wise Way #1: Wizard Brain over Lizard Brain.
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Rhinehart Neas • edited by: SForsyth • updated: 7/12/2012 Educators may strive to teach a lesson plan & encourage independent critical thinking; however, gifted students need the ability to be objective, open minded, and honest. They will also need to learn how to analyze a situation or data, along with recognizing bias. These skills don't come naturally. Teaching the BasicsObjective: to encourage independent critical thinking to gifted students through objectivity, open-mindedness, analysis, discerning bias and honesty.Prior Knowledge: Brainstorm with students what they know about the process of thinking. Free Critical Thinking Worksheets. Critical Thinking Worksheets Critical thinking is more than just a simple thought process.
It involves thinking on a much deeper underlying level rather than just at the surface. There is so much information available to us in this world that we don't know what is true and what is not. An Intermediate and Advanced Role-play. Rock or Feather: A Critical-Thinking Activity. A simple activity can reveal much about the students you work with each day.
Students make and defend their choices in this activity, called Rock or Feather? Included: Comments from teachers who've used the activity -- and a printable activity sheet! Are you more like a rock or a feather? LEARN NC: Search Results. Critical thinking in science This unit of inquiry-based lessons teaches eighth-grade students to utilize and develop critical thinking skills.
Students will create testable questions; design and perform experiments; collect, organize, and analyze data; and use these results to decide on the next step in the scientific process. Format: lesson plan (multiple pages) Tobacco bag stringing: Educator's guide Elementary lesson plans Elementary lesson plans based upon Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was, study primary source documents and visuals,... Format: lesson plan Educator's guide: The arrival of Swiss immigrants Teaching suggestions to help your students synthesize the information in the article "The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants.
" Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies) By Pauline S. Critical thinking and art with The Snowy Day This lesson will focus on the illustrations from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Critical Thinking Lesson Plans.