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Bridge to Critical Thinking

Bridge to Critical Thinking. We finished reading that story. . Conversations with your classroom volunteer about critical thinking. Volunteers are new to teaching. . A short conversation can clarify what you’d like the volunteer to do. .

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Bridge to Critical Thinking

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  1. Bridge to Critical Thinking We finished reading that story. Conversations with your classroom volunteer about critical thinking

  2. Volunteers are new to teaching.

  3. A short conversation can clarify what you’d like the volunteer to do.

  4. synthesizinganalyzingcreatingpredictingasking questionsgiving evidence

  5. Critical thinking isn’t exclusive to the classroom.

  6. Volunteers, teachers, students, children…we all use critical thinking skills in our personal lives. Why does this matter?

  7. Which activities require deeper thinking? • reading articles • discussion and debate • using maps • sorting equations

  8. Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Levels 1 2 4 Skill/ Concept Extended Thinking 3

  9. Level One: What did the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion and Dorothy each want? Level Two: What are some examples of irony in the Wizard of Oz?

  10. Level Three: How does the Wizard of Oz compare to European fairy tales, such as those by the Brothers Grimm?

  11. Level Four: What are the ways in which the characters and political dynamics in Oz could be likened to real-life people and political dynamics during the author’s time and during our current time?

  12. Focus students’ attention where it can do the most good. Be a question asker (instead of an answer giver).

  13. Bridging

  14. Analyze the purpose of the structure of the united states government.

  15. What is the structure where you work? What would happen if it were different?

  16. What is the central idea or theme in this passage?

  17. What is a song that you like? What is it about? How do you know?

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