What are the ways I can integrate critical thinking in my lessons?

Answer 1

Ask questions involving ISSUES. Everybody will have different answers, and they'll start to think if they hear other kids say other things. And it can lead to quite a discussion. Good for kids.

Answer 2

Have you heard of Bloom's Taxonomy? It's a set of skills. The critical thinking skills in the taxonomy are analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The way to integrate these skills into your lessons is simply to have the students use them. In other words, instead of having your students just list the characteristics of animals, have them judge which animal would better live in the desert and why (evaluation). Instead of having them list something they've memorized, get them to break it down and apply parts of it to different situations (analysis). It's impossible to give you specific advice without knowing what exactly you are teaching, but simply have students do critical thinking. Model it and have them practice, practice, practice by doing it many times.

Answer 3

At the beginning of the school year I present Bloom's taxonomy to my students. I then give them a series of questions or tasks and ask them to rate them according which of the levels of thinking the questions/tasks are testing.

I refer to Bloom's taxonomy for all my lesson planning. That's how I make sure I am integrating the higher levels into my teaching.

Good luck.

Answer 4

outline critical thinking to your students and give them examples of how it is done, why it is needed to grow , and have them practice it in your class, it will be hard at first but most will enjoy learning it