Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking skills are incredibly important skills to have today. Thinking objectively and fairly creates positive outcomes.
Children need to be taught ‘how to think’, so they can think. Using critical thinking skills is a technique that gives children the tools to think for themselves; to reason objectively; to make sound judgements and decisions based on facts and not opinion.
Use these strategies & techniques to develop children’s ability to help question, challenge and evidence the integrity of thoughts and ideas in a critical way.
Think like a ...thinker
Click on the images below (reasoning, information processing, problem solving) to discover how to be a stronger critical thinker.
Reasoning
Information processing
Problem solving
Information Processing
Using first hand experiences to answer questions; using a range of information sources and ICT tools to find answers; analyzing; interpreting; evaluating; presenting; make critical and informed judgements; expressing ideas; reviewing and evaluating work.
This key has a rectangular face to represent some of the products we use to find our information, for example, books, television, computers and newspapers.
Problem Solving
The identifying and understanding the problem; asking questions with regard to identifying the problem; planning ways to solve the problem; monitoring progress in tacking a problem; reviewing a solution to a problem.
This key is scratching his head to help him think and holding a puzzle piece to represent the puzzle or problem he is trying to solve.
