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Our professional learning library features a variety of themes and types of resources, all focused on how to integrate critical, creative, and collective thinking into your practice.

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Engagement in learning: Finding the depth beyond diligence

Bruce Beairsto discusses the active student engagement required for learning that will help students thrive in the modern world.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Enseigner la pensée géographique

Faire participer les élèves dans la pensée géographique grâce à la pensée critique en utilisant un cadre solide de concepts, d’exemples, de questions et de critères interdépendants. L’adaptation et la traduction de l’…
Subjects: Social Studies, Geography
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $26.95
Format: Print

The popcorn project: Service learning meets critical thinking

Jennifer Pardee, former principal of Bowen Island Community School, describes how the student council enhanced a fundraising project with critical thinking.
Subjects: Civics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Canadian history comes alive through inquiry and technology

Giovanna Longhi describes how a topic in Canadian history – the collective rights of First Nations peoples and the numbered treaties - came alive through her students’ use of inquiry and technology.
Subjects: Civics, English/Language Arts, Social Studies, History, Professional Learning
Grades: 7, 8, 9
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Taking seriously the teaching of critical thinking

In this article, Roland Case and Ian Wright use numerous examples to describe ways of effectively promoting critical thinking in social studies.
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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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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