When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives they had witnessed discrimination, she ...

Student projects centered on gardening can help kids learn such things as plant life cycles, measurement, and applying critical thinking skills. One such gardening project is helping local students ...

Although these students are not likely to demonstrate sophisticated analysis, they can benefit from exposure to the evidence and arguments used by students having stronger critical thinking skills.

Finally, students of all ages struggle to make connections to the content as they read and write, regardless of the note taking medium. Whether asking an elementary school student to pick out the main ...

Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a ...

Thinking transcends grade levels. Instead of focusing first on age-based, grade-level standards that assume a prior opportunity to learn, we might instead examine how we can set high expectations ...

The idea was to foster the kind of thinking scientists use. With practice, the students should start to get an appreciation for interpreting real-world data and sometimes be confident enough to ...

Design thinking is a classroom strategy that can facilitate 21 st century skills while allowing students to take action on topics they are passionate about says Sanjli Gidwaney, Director, Design ...

Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group).

For one thing, our students often come to us even less grounded in those areas than students at four-year schools. In many cases, the first they’ll ever hear of Sartre or Gibbon will be from us.

Polk County students improved their passing rates in 24 of 36 tested categories on the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking ...

Is your student thinking of changing their major, or trying to narrow down their options and decide on one? Choosing a major can often feel like an overwhelming decision. There are many options and ...