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Re: thinking education is an opportunity to listen to organic conversations between colleagues and partners from The Critical Thinking Consortium as they grapple with important pedagogical issues. Each episode will pull back the curtain on their critical, creative, and collaborative thinking and provide an opportunity for listeners to learn and reflect on their own practices.

You may also wish to browse through our selection of episodes from other organizations that have featured TC² facilitators and other team members as guests, discussing a wide variety of topics related to critical thinking.

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Nurturing a Thinking Classroom: Strategy #2

Usha James shares the second of five strategies to help nurture a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Nurturing a Thinking Classroom: Strategy #1

Usha James shares the first of five strategies to help nurture a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Three effective strategies for building a thinking classroom: Strategy #1

Maria Vamvalis shares the first of three top tips for how to build a thinking classroom. (1:00 minute)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Recognizing bias

This video explains how to distinguish biased perspectives from those that are unbiased or impartial. (2:38 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Critical Thinking, Assessment and Intellectual Tools

Garfield Gini-Newman discusses ways that critical thinking and assessment can play together in a university setting, while distinguishing between assessment 'of' and assessment 'for' learning. (2:50 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: Post-secondary

Using Criteria

This video focuses on using criteria as the basis for deciding what to think or how to act.(2:26 minutes)
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12