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The 8 Elements of Critical Thinking

Educators Technology

The purpose of critical thinking is to inform our behaviours, actions, decisions and to "improve our ability to reason and generate strong arguments" (Hanscomb, 2016, p. In this non-critical state, the mind becomes a warehouse of facts, a receptacle of unfiltered ideas and arguments. Critical questions are precursors of deep learning.

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Strategies to Adjust ‘Up’ What Students Know

Middle Web

Emily Mofield offers a practical, realistic and highly readable set of 25 different approaches to teaching in her Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced and High-Potential Students, a book that almost any classroom teacher would find highly useful, writes Leslie Wise.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Ben and Julia found that COASST participants improve their identification accuracy over time – a result of repeated and consistent identification practice and engagement with COASST staff who train and provide opportunities to learn. I became fascinated with farming and growing food. Ben’s top tips 1.