How to train students to think critically? In this PPT, the ways of training students to think critically are mentioned in details and the importance of critical thinking.

1. Training Students to Think
Critically
Mr. Mousa Hussein

2. Session objectives
• What is critical thinking?
• Why critical thinking is important?
• How to train students critical thinking skills?
• Questions and answers.

3. What is critical thinking?
• Critical thinking is reasonable reflective thinking focused on
deciding what to believe or do.
• Critical thinking is best understood as the ability of thinkers to
take charge of their own thinking.

4. Another way of looking at it…
Think of going into the dressing room when you’re shopping.
How many times do you twist and twirl in the front of three-sided
mirror before deciding whether or not to buy?
Critical thinking is the three-sided mirror of decision making.
Letting you look at all the angles to make the best possible choice.
What is critical thinking?

5. Why critical thinking is important?
1. It Encourages Curiosity
Curiosity drives students to keep learning,
to keep trying and to keep pushing forward
to fill the gaps in their knowledge.
2. It Enhances Creativity
The right mix of creativity along with
curriculum helps students to be innovative
and also encourages them to learn new
things.

6. Why critical thinking is important?
3. It Reinforces Problem-Solving
Ability
The goal of problem solving is to
provide students with a mechanism
for making good choices about how to
respond to important life decisions, or
act/react in various situations.

7. Why critical thinking is important?
4. It Fosters Independence
Creating an independent classroom is
challenging. Teachers need to give up
some control, and students have less
structure for their work. Its more
students center.
5. It's a Skill for Life, Not Just
Learning
Educators want their learners to
succeed both in and out of the
classroom.

8. How to train students critical thinking skills?
1. Ask questions
• Asking questions, especially
open-ended questions, gives
elementary school students a
chance to apply what they’ve
learned and build on prior
knowledge.
• An open-ended question is a
question that cannot be
answered with a "yes" or "no"
response, or with a static
response.

9. How to train students critical thinking skills?
2. Connect different ideas
Connecting different ideas is key to teaching critical thinking.
For example, elementary school teachers can ask students if they
know anyone who has to take a bus to work, and if so, why it would
be important for that person to wake up early morning?

10. How to train students critical thinking skills?
3. Encourage decision-making
Elementary school teachers
should encourage decision-
making as much as possible.
This enables students to apply
what they’ve learned to different
situations, weigh the pros and
cons of a variety of solutions,
then decide which ideas work
best.

11. How to train students critical thinking skills?
4. Inspire creativity
Teachers should seek out new ways for students to use
information to create something new. Art projects are an
excellent way to do this. Students can also construct inventions,
write a story or poem, create a game, sing a song.

12. How to train students critical thinking skills?
5. Work in groups
Cooperative learning not
only exposes students to the
thought processes of their
classmates, it expands their
thinking and worldview by
demonstrating that there’s no
one right way to approach a
problem.

13. How to train students critical thinking skills?
6. Brainstorm
Brainstorming is an excellent
learning tool. It’s also an
excellent critical-thinking
exercise, especially when
paired with visual elements that
bring original thinking and
classroom discussions to life.

14. How to train students critical thinking skills?
7. Incorporate different points
of view
This tactic not only establishes
that an idea should be assessed
from different points of view
before an opinion is formed, it
gives students a chance to
share their own viewpoints
while listening to and learning
from others.

15. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the
training of the mind to think.”
-Albert Einstein