critical thinking skills

Above and Beyond Common Core

by Clayton Woullard | Mar 12, 2014 | Articles

In some states, educators want to go above and beyond Common Core in setting state standards. In Colorado, Douglas County educators are among those who don’t want the state to implement the national Common Core standards, but their objections have less to do...

Chess Develops Elementary Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

by Christopher Magan | Jan 19, 2014 | Articles

Schools are discovering that chess develops elementary students’ critical thinking skills. Margot Drayton’s fourth-grade class knows what to do if a bishop is coming after their king — they call in the queen. “The queen is like a police...

Promoting Critical Thinking In Children

by Bernard Clark | May 10, 2013 | Articles

Critical thinking skills are important at any point in life. Studies have shown that children as young as four can understand critical thinking skills. Strong critical thinkers can grow up to become lawyers, politicians, judges, scientists, and mathematicians –...

Is Critical Thinking A Necessary Skill For Students To Learn?

by G. Randy Kasten | Mar 23, 2012 | Articles

Critical thinking is one skill separating innovators from followers. Critical thinking reduces the power of advertisers, the unscrupulous and the pretentious, and can neutralize the sway of an unsupported argument. Critical thinking is a skill most students enjoy...

Designer Teaching: Creative Problem Solving

by Tina Barseghian | Jan 6, 2012 | Articles

A designer uses creative problem solving every day. They see the world differently than the rest of us. They’re constantly deconstructing and rebuilding objects and ideas that most of us accept as static and fixed. Creative problem solving is responsible for the...