The document discusses critical thinking and provides strategies to improve it. It defines critical thinking as actively conceptualizing, applying, analyzing and evaluating information to guide beliefs and actions. Some strategies include using wasted time productively, solving a problem daily, internalizing intellectual standards, keeping a journal, dealing with ego, and analyzing group influences. It also discusses lateral thinking, public speaking tips like practicing and knowing the audience, and doing speaking activities in groups to discuss topics and present decisions.

1. CRITICAL THINKING
Critical thinking...the awakening of the intellect to the study of itself.

2. WHY THINK
CRITICALLY
?
• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully
conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
• It is self-monitored, self- directed, self-disciplined and self-corrected thinking

3. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Use wasted
time

4. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
A problem a day

5. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES
Internalize
Intellectual
Standards.

6. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Keep an
intellectual journal

7. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Reshape your
character

8. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Deal with your ego

9. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Redefine the way
you see things

10. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Get in touch with
your emotions

11. CRITICAL THINKING
STRATEGIES:
Analyze group
influence on your life

14. THE ELEVATOR
• Work In groups and discuss the problem provided to you
• Negotiate an outcome
• Reach a conclusion and be ready to share it.

15. LATERAL THINKING
• Lateral thinking is solving problems through an
indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that
is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that
may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-
by-step logic. The term was coined in 1967 by
Edward de Bono.

16. PUBLIC SPEAKING
“Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep
eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of
the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world
loves nothing so much as real life.”
― Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

17. PUBLIC SPEAKING TIPS
• 1. Know your material.
• 2. Practice. Practice. Practice! Practice, pause and breathe..
• 3. Know the audience4. Know the room..
• 5. Relax..
• 6. Visualize yourself giving your speech
• 7. Realize that people want you to succeed.
• 8. Don’t apologize for any nervousness or problem
• 9. Concentrate on the message – not the medium..
• 10. Gain experience

18. YOUR VIEWS
a critical thinking and speaking
activity
• In groups discuss any two
controversial statements given to
you
• You have ten minutes after which
group members will vote over the
statements
• One spokesperson from each
group will present the decision
• Feed back session

19. SPEAKING ACTIVITY
• Choose an article
• Give it a reading
• Prepare to present the main idea and summary of the article to the class
• The length of your talk must be between 2 to 5 minutes
• Get ready to receive the applause