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Critical Thinking in Fordson High School

Critical Thinking in Fordson High School. Ahmed Saab Osama Nassor Omar Gebara Toufik Abbas. Problem. Fordson High School students are not critically thinking/analyzing. This leads to low test scores, failing classes, etc. School Comparison with Test Scores. What is Critical Thinking?.

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Critical Thinking in Fordson High School

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  1. Critical Thinking in Fordson High School Ahmed Saab Osama Nassor Omar Gebara Toufik Abbas

  2. Problem • Fordson High School students are not critically thinking/analyzing. This leads to low test scores, failing classes, etc.

  3. School Comparison with Test Scores

  4. What is Critical Thinking? • Critical thinking is higher order thinking students need. It is the purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking is breaking down information.

  5. Why we should teach critical thinking at Fordson High School? • Critical thinking is essential for effective functioning in the modern world. • We, as students, need critical thinking skills to be able to analyze, make decisions, and judgments. Its a powerful resource in one's personal and civic life.  • Education in critical thinking offers an alternative by emphasizing that we can "distinguish between facts and opinions”. Critical thinking encourages us to recognize that our "rationally justifiable confidence" in a claim that can span a wide range, from feelings to fact and everything in between. 

  6. The Role of Critical Thinking • Critical thinking is the art of taking charge of your own mind.  Its value is simple:”if we can take charge of our own minds, we can take charge of our lives.”

  7. CT Analyze involves • Communicative Lectures • Laboratory activities • Homework assessments • And more!

  8. Lectures can teach critical thinking • Lectures can teach critical thinking principals to students, but still manage to stay on topic. • This must present in such a way that students would be encouraged to think critically. • It is accomplished by questioning the students by the way they understand the material, but analyze it and apply it to new situations.

  9. Laboratories teach critical thinking • Laboratories can also help students because they can practice critical thinking by learning the scientific method. • Critical thinking mimics the scientific method because a question is identified, a hypothesis is formulated, data is sought and gathered, the hypothesis is logically tested and evaluated, and reliable conclusions are drawn from the results.

  10. Homework teaches critical thinking • Homework is given both traditional reading and special written problem sets or questions. • It can be used to enhance critical thinking. • Quantitive exercises and quantitive word problems teach problem solving skills.

  11. Term papers teach critical thinking • Term papers are provided, which is the best way to teach critical thinking. • Writing forces students to organize their thoughts, contemplate their topic, and evaluate their conclusion in a persuasive manner.

  12. Exam questions teach critical thinking • Exam questions are devised which promotes critical thinking rather than memorization carrier. • These supplies for essay question exams and multiple choice exams.

  13. CT Analyze involves the following steps to success!

  14. Step one is to figure out where you are. • Students cannot make sense of information, unless they know where they are, when they look at it. • By figuring out “where you are” academically and personally, students are able to find their way forward.

  15. Step two is to make sure students see clearly. • When students deal with information they sometimes see through “intellectual” prisms in their minds. • This means they approach and issue with a dissorted view of it. • Students need to have a generally accurate idea of what ever person, place, organization, situation, or issue that the students are looking at.

  16. Step 3 is deciding what is needed to be decided. • If students do not ask the right question, they cannot possibly get the right answer. Sometimes deciding can take some effort. • So students should have the time to be sure they are asking the right questions.

  17. Step 4 is to determine what is needed to be known. • Once students have decided what they needed to decide, then make a list of the information needed to make that decision.

  18. Step 5 is collecting information • The first thing is that students need to find the most reliable source for each piece of information they have. • Some pieces are not always important as others.

  19. Step 6 • Students should notice a pattern • They gather their information and combine it all together.

  20. Step 7 • Students should use their best judgment • Which is “the sum total of who a student is.” • Judgment also affects the decisions that the student will make even when they are facing the same situation.

  21. CT Analyze will show and prove that any student can analyze and critically think. • Call 1-800-262-5993 • HELP SAVE YOUR CHILDS FUTURE!

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