Critical Thinking

I ran across the Critical Thinking Community website which is an organization that "aims to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools via present publications, conferences, workshops on professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards."

The home page can be fround by visiting: http://www.criticalthinking.org/index.cfm

One of the links made it quite clear that "thinking is not driven by answers but by questions." So check out their recommendations to cultivate critical thinking with your students by visiting: http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/thinking-some-purpose.cfm.

There are lots of other great resources on thinking across the website and worth a visit.