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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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Gingerbread math: A sticky investigation

Secondary teacher Kristine Woodford takes us on a mathematical journey involving proportion and scale in which critical thinking enhances engagement and learning.
Subjects: Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: 10, 11, 12
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Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to support student inquiry with questions and tasks that effectively promote critical, creative and collaborative thinking. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $12.95
Format: Print

Developing critically thoughtful e-learning communities of practice

Philip Balcaen and Janine Hirtz discuss strategies for developing successful professional communities of practice through online and face-to-face learning based on critical thinking.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Learning to Inquire in History, Geography, and Social Studies: An Anthology for Secondary Teachers

A favoured choice for post-secondary course instructors and their students for over 25 years. Now in its fourth edition, Learning to Inquire in History, Geography, and Social Studies: An Anthology for Secondary Teachers brings together the work of prominent education scholars and the experiences …
Subjects: Social Studies, Geography, History
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Post-secondary
Format: Print
Alternate Format: e-Book
Regular Price: $79.95
Format: Print

Transformed teaching

Ingrid Phare describes how infusing critical thinking has resulted in an elementary school where spirited discussion, conversations and debates are the norm.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: 4, 5, 6
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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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