A Path to Critical Thinking Skills

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  1. welcome and thank you, Thio.
  2. My presentation of critical thinking and a path to critical
  3. thinking. Hello.
  4. My name is Jennifer War Fall and I am the
  5. kindergarten through fifth grade.
  6. Early intervention specialists type.
  7. And I really wanted to share something with you that
  8. I have been reading about and doing minor research on,
  9. but something that I want Thio involve mawr in my
  10. classroom and would really love to see at Sony Elementary
  11. in the classrooms.
  12. Critical thinking is such a key element in growing as
  13. a learner and also becoming a citizen.
  14. Ah, in our society, that is, um, effective, efficient, collaborative.
  15. But and that comes from critical thinking.
  16. And the sooner that we nurture that in students on
  17. they develop.
  18. That way, it'll become second nature to them.
  19. So let's go ahead and start our presentation.
  20. Okay, Um, Paul and Elder who really designed, uh, this
  21. concept of critical thinking and, um, almost a step process
  22. and becoming a critical thinker.
  23. Uh, they define critical thinking as the art of analyzing
  24. and evaluating thinking, um, with a view to improve it.
  25. Okay. I thought this was interesting that 45% of college
  26. students lack critical thinking skills.
  27. And really, I would have to say that elementary were
  28. the foundation in developing critical thinking skills.
  29. And okay, how are we nurturing critical thinking skills in
  30. our students?
  31. How can we increase critical thinking and our students?
  32. So that's a question I want you to be thinking
  33. about during this presentation.
  34. Yeah, School.
  35. Okay, okay.
  36. All right.
  37. Here is the Paul Elder critical thinking model.
  38. Um, it looks like you have intellectual standards that have
  39. to be applied thio elements of reasoning and these developed
  40. into intellectual traits.
  41. And, um, I really think about like, uh, someone that
  42. I want to have conversation with, somebody that I want
  43. to do a project with, somebody I wanna work with.
  44. I think of humility.
  45. Um, fair mindedness, courage, perseverance, empathy, integrity, confidence and reasoning.
  46. And all of these things can be all of these
  47. critical thinking.
  48. Model components are items that we could include in our
  49. lessons and nurturing students today.
  50. Book. Okay, um, pro.
  51. Everyone will have these, um, have it copied for you.
  52. Probing open ended questioning that you could include in any
  53. lesson that you teach today.
  54. Um, those open ended questions where kids were really thinking.
  55. And what a way to encourage kids to get involved.
  56. Um, and this is really including anything with critical thinking
  57. can be motivating.
  58. Um, okay, perhaps.
  59. Yeah. Okay.
  60. Uh, all right.
  61. Paul and Elder also argue that critical thinking is self
  62. directed. So, um, self disciplined self monitor and self corrective
  63. thinking. And I think of you'll see a list of
  64. those open ended questions and how really our students do
  65. need to be guided.
  66. But there is a knell Ament of how you can
  67. scaffold this and model this, but also let them be
  68. in charge of their own critical thinking in the classroom.
  69. Okay, here are a list, and I have these copied
  70. in your stack.
  71. Um, this is 10 grade critical thinking lessons to include
  72. in your instructions.
  73. So they're already mapped out.
  74. And really, these could be entwined into the lessons that
  75. you're teaching now, but also give you, um, ideas on
  76. other creative lessons that you can dio that you might
  77. not even even thought off.
  78. Okay, Okay, where we can.
  79. All right.
  80. So we're gonna do a little critical thinking activity.
  81. A Nadeau ult activity.
  82. I've actually participated in this, and I have Thio, uh,
  83. admit that it took me a minute Thio longer than
  84. a minute.
  85. Thio solve it.
  86. But I often think about as adults and I think
  87. about myself as a student.
  88. And I'm getting my specialist degree now at Piedmont, Um,
  89. that I tend to just take information and I don't
  90. question it, But this These courses that I'm taking and
  91. studying about critical thinking and the Paul and Elder model
  92. and how I am tending to question details and processes
  93. Mawr which, um, you know, I'm really excited about in
  94. this critical thinking game you are going to be given,
  95. I have it right here on your card.
  96. It's nine dots and you are going thio.
  97. You'll be using a pencil.
  98. You're gonna start from any position on any dot and
  99. you are going to draw one line after another.
  100. So you simply have toe have you have to draw,
  101. uh, each line you'll have to draw.
  102. You have three nine dots and three rows.
  103. Um, and your challenge is to draw four straight lines
  104. which grow through the middle of all the dots without
  105. taking your pencil off the paper.
  106. Now, some of you already might have participated in this,
  107. but it took me a minute, and it's because I
  108. hear is the car that you've been given.
  109. But what really took me time is that I didn't
  110. think outside the box that critical thinking where you're really
  111. questioning the parameters that I've been given.
  112. How can I go outside of that?
  113. And okay, I'm gonna give you guys a minute.
  114. And when we go through and you spend time doing
  115. this Yeah, you know, I really wanted to stay inside
  116. the box.
  117. I didn't want to challenge that and think.
  118. Okay. What?
  119. What's something?
  120. Outside of these directions, I was so closed into those
  121. directions. Nowhere does it say that you can't draw outside
  122. of it and then make a, um uh, you know,
  123. but But I was so stuck in that, and it
  124. took me a bit.
  125. That was just a fun game.
  126. Thio encourage the critical thinking for ourselves.
  127. Okay, I have some critical thinking activities that you can
  128. dio thes air teacher activities that you could take back
  129. to your classroom and do with your students.
  130. Um, critical thinking, uh, activities.
  131. Um, open ended questions probing questions are always fun for
  132. kids and I and I feel like sometimes is an
  133. adult. I could be kind of afraid that and resistant
  134. because I feel like I have to have everything right.
  135. Have to stay inside that nine dot model and not
  136. go outside of that.
  137. The kids are resilient.
  138. They're adventurous.
  139. Um, they dio think outside the box, and we need
  140. to encourage that.
  141. We need to encourage those questioning.
  142. Um uh, challenging and creative thinking that these kids, um,
  143. already come with and we want to develop more of
  144. that. Uh huh.
  145. Yes, because critical thinkers are going to be the ones
  146. that changed the world.
  147. And the kids that are in our classroom today are
  148. the ones they're gonna be leading us.
  149. And if they're not critical thinkers And with that, the
  150. statistics of the 45% of college students cannot critically think
  151. for themselves that comes from somewhere the in an elementary
  152. education. We need Thio nurture that and work on that.
  153. Yeah, okay.
  154. And then I have some, uh, websites that thio, you
  155. know where I got my information from.
  156. So I really enjoyed sharing my ideas on critical thinking
  157. and what we've learned in our program.
  158. So far.
  159. And, um just what?
  160. Yeah, amazing, productive citizens that we're gonna help nurture in
  161. our classroom today through critical thinking activities.
  162. I will have everything linked for you, and then obviously
  163. you have your package to take with you.
  164. Thank you so much for staying and enjoying my being
  165. here and for my presentation.
  166. Critical thinking.
  167. Thank you.