There are 5 macro skills including receptive skills like reading and listening, and productive skills like speaking and writing. Critical thinking involves assessing one's own thought processes through analyzing evidence rather than making conclusions based on emotion. It can be developed by asking questions at different levels of Bloom's taxonomy from remembering to creating.
4. Let’s warm up
1. List at least 5 provinces in the Philippines which start with letter B
2. Look at the following figure carefully and replace the question mark
with a correct number
5
6 1
10 ?
7
3
4
11
21
5. A couple went to the climbing trip, but only the husband
returned from the vacation. He claimed that his wife slipped while
climbing and died. After investigating, the local sheriff arrested the
husband and told him, “We determined that you committed the crime,
thanks to the tip of your travel agent who called and claimed you
murdered your wife”
How did the agent know that wife was murdered?
6. There are 25 rooms in Dreamland Hotel, but only 6 rooms are
occupied. Calculate the percentage of uncopied rooms.
76%
7. Critical vs Non-Critical Thinking
Non-Critical thinking – construct thoughts based on emotion
-- jumps to conclusions without proof or evidence
Critical Thinking – series of complex thought processes
-- assess the way you think
-- analyse the process involved
8. How would a critical and non-critical thinker
perceive the box?
9. What would a critical thinker and non-critical
thinker do?
It is known to everyone in the province that their mayor is corrupt and
that he is using the town’s budget to hold parties and events so that
people will continue to like him. Despite this, he still wins the election.
10. Levels of Thinking
BLOOMS TAXONOMY OF COGNITIVE DOMAIN
- Proponent and Publisher: Benjamin Bloom
Six Levels
1. Knowledge
2. Comprehension
3. Application
4. Analysis
5. Synthesis
6. Evaluation
12. In the summer before Pia became a Grade 11 student, she decided to
volunteer in a non-government organization which ran a shelter for
street children. During her orientation, she was told to report incidents
of street children engaging in illicit activities. One day, she found one of
the children who used to go to the shelter picking pockets in the
market, so she went to talk to him. He said that his father threatened
to beat him up if he will not hand enough money by the end of the day.
13. Questions to ask for each level
1. Remembering – What did Pia do during the summer?
- aims to define, memorize, recall, or state info
2. Understanding – What can you say about the situation of the child?
- interpretation
-asking questions which discuss, describe,
paraphrase, or explain information
3. Applying - If you were Pia, how would you approach the incident of
seeing one of the children?
- asking question which demonstrate, solve, or use
information
14. Higher Order thinking Skills
• Analyzing – Evaluating – Creating
Pia reported the incident regarding the street child to her volunteer
organization. They contacted the proper authorities to help the child
and to apprehend his father. However, they were told that it was
already reported months before, and that the authorities will look into
the issue once they have time, as they have other priorities.
15. • Analyzing
Based on the response of the authorities, what inference can you make
regarding their treatment of the case?
-making inferences (a conclusion based on evidence and reasoning)
-focuses on breaking down ideas into parts and relating this parts to
one another.
16. • Evaluating
Is the reaction of the authorities justified?
If you will be given the chance to end the story, how would you end it?
-making judgment on the value and validity of ideas and events
-weighing pros and cons of the judgment
-asking things which judge and test an idea based on certain rules or
standard.
17. • Creating
How would you illustrate the highlights of the events, including the first
part, though a four – panel comic strip?
If you will be given the chance to end the story, how would you end it?
-making something concrete
-aims to produce, design, construct new information or ideas.
18. Qualities of a critical thinker
1. Inquisitive
2. Investigates and digs deeper
3. Not looking for faults – being open minded to different ideas to
arrive at a better judgment
4. Does not accept information until it is verified
5. Does not let irrational emotion affect his/her thinking
