The goal of this course is to shed light on how to teach learners to become passionate, practiced, and resourceful thinkers and problem-solvers who will perform better at school and in tertiary life because of their teachers.
Welcome to Critical Thinking Skills: Using High Order Thinking For Better Results from the Same Curriculum
Provider no. 11970
10 CPTD points
Approximately 150 minutes done over 4 weeks including the assessment.
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Thinking, for A Change!
There is a growing realisation that if learners merely memorise the content of the subjects they learn at school, this is no longer enough to achieve academically, or in life. They are now being exposed to more complex problems for which there aren’t easy answers. Not only are they required to think more effectively for themselves but they also need to master working collaboratively with others. This is impacting on education around the world, for which a new approach is required.
Both the relatively new CAPS curriculum and the IEB thinking skills exams in South Africa acknowledge the need to actively develop critical thinking skills. However, until now, it has not been clear how school management and staff build these thinking skills into teaching and learning practice.
Our goal is for learners to become passionate, practiced, and resourceful thinkers and problem-solvers who will perform better at school and in tertiary life because of their teachers.
We help Educators to embed active questioning and thinking strategies into the learning process for better results from the same curriculum. Educators encourage their learners to build on their prior knowledge and coach critical thinking skills as they teach normal content. This nurtures learner competence and confidence and becomes an integral part of how these schools operate.
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- Critical Thinking Part 1 00:00:00
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- Critical Thinking Part 2 00:00:00
- Critical Thinking : Portfolio of Evidence 00:00:00
Critical Thinking
I truly enjoyed it. Thank you for allowing me to go through it.
Critical Thinking
The course was very informative.
Need for change.
This course has sown me that there is a great need for change in my teaching style. Not one method of teaching will help a class of different personalities and skill levels. The manner that best suits every individual in the class is forever changing. So as educators we should be open to change. Learn, Un-Learn, relearn and repeat. It is the only method that guarantees that my reach is possibly 100%, there is no way I can get close to this with one teaching style.
Thank you.
Ntlhane
Critical Thinking
I found that the course had a lot of valuable information. What stood out to me was how to be more intentional about my questioning strategies when teaching critical thinking.
I do think that the delivery of the content could include more engagement possibly with someone actually going through the notes and explaining some of the content. It was difficult to stay engaged with so much reading in a video.
Critical thinking for better results from the same curriculum
Quite engaging! This course offered me new insights on how to be a more reflective classroom practitioner who systematically embeds structured critical thinking in every engagement with my learners.