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Stories from the Classroom

Written accounts describing the in-class experiences of teachers and other educators working to support critical, creative, and collaborative thinking.

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Heritage fairs

Heritage fairs

In this interview, teacher Romy Cooper explains how she uses critical thinking to help her students develop the strong inquiry questions that drive their impressive projects.
Subjects: Social Studies, History, Professional Learning
Grades: 4, 5, 6
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How do we measure up?

How do we measure up?

Yvonne Denomy, vice principal and teacher librarian, describes an inquiry into children’s rights with grade three and four students that left her in awe as they were able to determine, locate, analyze, interpret, infer and judge from primary data.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Taking critical thinking “below the wings”

Taking critical thinking “below the wings”

Dorothy MacDonald tells how critical inquiry transformed a training course for “below the wing” airline workers in ways that can inspire all educators.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: Post-secondary
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Adding value to the university classroom experience

Adding value to the university classroom experience

Dr. Rosalind Warner describes how attendance and participation in her classroom increased significantly after she started to deliberately encourage critical thinking in her students.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: Post-secondary
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With the help of a crocodile

With the help of a crocodile

Courtney Johnson describes how she helped her ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students think critically about imagery in poetry.
Subjects: English/Language Arts, Professional Learning
Grades: 7, 8, 9
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The power of critical thinking

The power of critical thinking

Teacher Stephan Stipp describes the engaging effect on his grade 9 students of critical challenges that have real life connections to career choices.
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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