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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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Teaching Historical Thinking (Revised and expanded edition)

Introduce students to six interrelated concepts central to their ability to think critically about history using clear explanations of each concept, teaching suggestions for applying them throughout the curriculum and an extended teaching example.
Subjects: Social Studies, History
Grades: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $39.95
Format: Print

Creating Thinking Classrooms

Navigate the opportunities and challenges of current reform initiatives by focusing on three important shifts: reorienting to a thinking classroom; attending to enriched goals; and aligning practices with key principles of 21st century learning. Please note: Corwin has published a U.S. version of…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $32.95
Format: Print

Teaching Geographical Thinking (Revised and expanded edition)

Engage students in geographical thinking through critical inquiry using a solid framework of interrelated concepts, examples, questions and criteria. Also available in French: Enseigner la pensée géographique
Subjects: Social Studies, Geography
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $26.95
Format: Print

Introduction to the TC² conception of critical thinking

Roland Case explains that critical thinking involves making reasoned judgments in problematic situations.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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Does project-based learning teach critical thinking?

In this article from the Buck Institute for Education, John Mergendoller explores the link between project-based learning and 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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Preconceptions of critical thinking

Roland Case and LeRoi Daniels invite educators to reconsider their perceptions of critical thinking in this analysis of many common misunderstandings.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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