Billabong School Thane

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Critical ThinkingHigher Order Thinking
That UnifiesCurriculum, Instruction, and
Learning
 
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ABOUT US
Billabong High International School, Thane is run
byCitizens Welfare Association,a registered
Public Charitable Trust dedicated and committed
to providing Quality Education and Promoting
Social and Cultural activities. The trust is
managed by Mr. Sudhir Goenka, who is passionate
about providing quality education.
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Let us Begin With the Question What is Critical
Thinking?

• thinking about thinking while thinking in order
  to make thinking better.
• thinking that assesses itself.

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The Three Dimensions of Critical Thinking
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• Throughout the rest of the talk, this concept of
  critical thinking should be understood as what is
  meant by higher order thinking.

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Thesis

• Education, as a concept, defines a set of higher
  order goals,
• but actual school learning typically culminates
  in a set of lower order results.
• How can we narrow the gap between goals and
  results?

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How can we make high order goals a practical
reality?

• So that in math classes students learn to think
  mathematically.
• So that in history classes students learn to
  think historically.
• So that in science classes students learn to
  think scientifically.

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And so that in general

• students begin to think critically in a
  disciplined, self-directed fashion
• A major obstacle we face is that most teachers
  make assumptions about instruction, knowledge,
  and learning that are incompatible with high
  order results.

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What is missing is coherence, connection, and
depth of understanding.
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• The bottom line, as we all well know, is not what
  is taught but what is learned.
• Students are learning something very different
  from what we think we are teaching them.

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THANK YOU