Practical Critical Thinking Teacher's Manual - Softcover

Catherine Connors-Nelson

 
9781601447708: Practical Critical Thinking Teacher's Manual
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1601447701 ISBN 13: 9781601447708
Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co., 2015

Synopsis

This detailed 304-page Teacher's Manual is highly recommended to be used with Practical Critical Thinking: Student Book, engaging students in the study of critical thinking. This book lays a strong foundation in the important cognitive skills necessary for critical thinking, such as comprehension, analysis, evaluation, construction, creativity, and communication. Through fun and concrete activities–including Thought Experiments, Student Polls, Practice Sessions, Games and Puzzles, Predictions, and Important Takeaways–students explore topics essential to critical thinking, gaining tools that will help them apply critical thinking directly to their own lives. Additional individual and group activities are included to reinforce student learning as they explore topics such as:

    • The Basics of Critical Thinking
    • Obstacles to Critical Thinking
    • Evaluating Evidence
    • Creative Problem-Solving
    • Ambiguity, Vagueness, and Doublespeak
    • Arguments
    • Informal Fallacies
    • Advertising
    • Eyewitness Testimony, Direct & Circumstantial Evidence

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Publisher
The Critical Thinking Co.
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1601447701
ISBN 13 
9781601447708
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304