As teachers one of the most challenging tasks is to
help students grow as critical thinkers. This is not an easy task at any stage.
It would be great to share some activities we all use so as to develop critical
thinking in our group. With the little ones
we usually use an activity that is very interesting. We read part of a story
and we ask st to imagine how the problem can be solved. It is amazing to see
that most of them have lots of ideas, usually more than one ending. There are
also students who cannot produce any solution, they need extra help, and they
usually get an ending based on what others have said. This is clear evidence
that we need to work harder with those st. This is just an example, one
activity, but we have to bear
in mind that we have to prepare challenging activities, activities that will make them
think, reflect imagine, every day.
I know that most of us will agree with the importance of critical thinking,
but it would be interesting to think what we can do so as to walk them through
this process and compare it to what we actually do in the classroom every day. Critical thimking is not only for students!!!
