Lift the Ceiling: Increase Rigor with Critical Thinking Skills

Autor/inn/en	McCollister, Karen; Sayler, Micheal F.
Titel	Lift the Ceiling: Increase Rigor with Critical Thinking Skills
Quelle	In: Gifted Child Today, 33 (2010) 1, S.41-47 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1076-2175
Schlagwörter	Structural Elements (Construction); Stimulation; Academically Gifted; Student Interests; Criticism; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Educational Environment; Teaching Methods; Problem Solving; Questioning Techniques; Decision Making; Grade 4; Grade 5; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studieninteresse; Kritik; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Problemlösen; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05
Abstract	The optimal school learning environment for gifted students is one where scholastic rigor is the standard. This rigor is needed both to stimulate the students intellectually and enhance their academic growth. The integration of critical thinking skills into the daily content and lessons is essential for achieving this rigor. This infusion, along with also taking into account student interest, readiness, and learning styles, provides the foundation and walls for raising the ceiling of students' scholastic growth and intellectual stimulation. Infusing good critical thinking activities in the classroom also helps the brightest students on the normal developmental trajectory as they interrelate ideas within and among the disciplines leading to increased academic rigor and greater depth of understanding for them. Critical thinking enhances academic growth; the more it is integrated into content instruction, the more students will analyze the concepts they are learning. This article discusses four useful ways to integrate critical thinking into the curriculum. These include: (1) the inclusion of problem solving; (2) asking questions that require critical analysis; (3) evaluating sources; and (4) decision making. (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10