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Teaching Critical Thinking And Problem-Solving Skills - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Critical thinking can be in contrast with intelligence as the latter is defined by the ability to use correct thinking and reasoning while critical thinking element may oppose to and be restricted by this idea.
      - Paradoxically enough, critical thinking is unanimously conceived as a “selfconsciousness” of the Western civilization (e.g. Novella, 2012; Sia, Jose, 2019), however, it strongly resists the theoretical conceptualization.
      - Adding the word 'critical' to the word 'thinking', its meaning is narrowed down to a conscious operating mode rather than a liberated and spontaneous mode.
      - Similarly, there are changes to the concepts of critical thinking which have not been mentioned such as an important shift to other essential skills
      - Teaching critical thinking is important as it is a purposeful method for enhancing your thoughts beyond your automatic, everyday thinking.
    - - Many educators find it hard to instill critical thinking skills in students as they focus mostly on teaching content.
      - Students who are able to deal with problems effectively are those who think critically.
      - There is equally the IDEALS technique which refers to identify, define, enumerate, analyze, list and self-correct, and used to think critically then solve problems effectively.
      - Students must learn and develop this particular skill in order to learn actively and not only to memorize facts.
      - Critical thinking has equally been referred to as metacognition instruction which makes use of techniques such as questioning which necessitates the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information from students in solving problems and making decisions (thinking) rather than merely repeating information (memorizing).
      - Teaching students how to think can be improved by focusing more on their learning processes.
    - - Critical thinking skills are crucial as they successfully allow students to deal with problems socially, scientifically, and practically.
      - Students should be taught how to think rather than merely what to think.Several teachers still struggle continuously to engage students in critical thinking tasks and students hardly ever make use of critical thinking skills to solve complex, real-world problems.
      - How listening is to hearing, critical thinking is to knowing which implies that the critical thinking skill must be learnt, developed and practised continually.
      - The current education system focuses more on achieving higher grades and this negatively impacts a teacher's ability to concentrate on students' critical thinking issues.
      - The different problem-based learning activities that could be undertaken to boost critical thinking in class could be co-operative learning, creative discussion,self-directing activities.