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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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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

Considering the need for critical thinking at the core of history curriculum

Garfield Gini-Newman explores the challenge for students today: selecting and using relevant information for a purpose.
Subjects: History, Professional Learning
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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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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Nurturing critical thinking: A note to parents

Roland Case explains what critical thinking involves, why it is important, and how parents might help their children develop this life skill.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Beyond Thinking Classrooms

Usha James, in collaboration with Garfield Gini-Newman, Laura Gini-Newman, Maria Vamvalis and Warren Woytuck, presents a renewed mission that offers a framework for critical inquiry, stressing quality thinking that leads to student action. This article first appeared in Principal Connections, Summer…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Teaching Students to Use Criteria

This resource clearly explains the importance of criteria in critical thinking. When students are invited to respond to critical questions, criteria enable them to carefully weigh the options and make reasoned judgments about those questions. The resource provides teachers with practical tools and s…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $14.95
Format: Print